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TWENTY-FIFTH    ANNIVERSARY    RECORD 
CLASS    OF    1893,  YALE    COLLEGE 


NATHAN      HALE       1773 


TWENTY-FIVE  YEAR  RECORD 

CLASS  OF  NINETY-THREE 

YALE  COLLEGE 


INCLUDING   AN   ACCOUNT   OF   THE 
ANNIVERSARY  REUNION    IN  JUNE,  1918 


PUBLISHED  BY 

NOAH   H.   SWAYNE,   2D 
Class  Secretary 

PENNSYLVANIA  BUILDING,  PHILADELPHIA 


1918 

The  Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor  Company 
New  Haven,  Conn. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


The  Twenty-fifth  Reunion 
Schedule  of  Events    . 
The  Reunion  . 


n 

15 


Then  and  Now 

An  Article  by  Edwin  Oviatt,  '96 

81 

Biographical  Sketches 

Graduates       .... 

107 

Non-Graduates 

443 

Statistics  and  Roll  of  the  Class 

Necrology       .... 

475 

Families           .... 

475 

Occupations    .... 

476 

Locality  Index 

477 

Roll  of  the  Class 

480 

THE  TWENTY-FIFTH  REUNION 


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TWENTY-FIFTH    REUNION 

Saturday.  June  15th   to  Wednesday.  June  19th  1918 

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SCHEDULE 

N.  B. — Immediately  on  arrival  in  New  Haven,  men  will  please  first 
register  at  Headquarters,  tenth  floor  of  Hotel  Taft,  and  so  have  their  room 
assignments  confirmed. 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  15: 

This  day  (and  previous  day)  men  going  to  New  Haven  by  New  York 
City  are  urged  while  in  New  York  to  get  in  touch  with  the  Committee 
and  other  New  York  '93  men,  so  that  all  courtesies  may  be  extended. 
Yale  Club,  45th  St.  and  Vanderbilt  Ave.  (across  from  Grand  Central 
Terminal).     University  Club,  Fifth  Ave.  and  54th  St. 

Dinner  at  Headquarters,  Hotel  Taft,  Tenth  Floor. 

SUNDAY,  JUNE  16: 

Breakfast  and  Luncheon  at  Headquarters. 
10:30  a.  m.  *Baccalaureate  Sermon,  Woolsey  Hall. 

5:00  p.  m.  *Organ  Recital  by    "our"    Professor  Jepson,  Woolsey  Hall. 
Afternoon.      Sea  bathing  at  The  Momauguin,  Cosey  Beach,  East  Haven. 
(Take  trolley.) 
7:00  p.  m.    Dinner  at  The  Momauguin,  Cosey  Beach,  East  Haven. 

MONDAY,  JUNE  17: 

Breakfast  and  Luncheon  at  Headquarters. 
Golfers,  tennis  enthusiasts,  etc.,  may  go  to  the  New  Haven 
Country  Club,  Lake  Whitney.     (Sign  slips,  which  will  be 
turned  over  to  the  Committee.)     Men  who  wish  to  spend 
the  day  at  the  Country  Club  may  take  luncheon  there. 
Afternoon.    *Class  Day  Exercises   (Class  of  1918)  on  the  Campus. 
7:00  p.  m.     Dinner  at  New  Haven  Country  Club.     (Take  Whitney  Ave- 
nue   trolley.)      Dinner    will    be    preceded    by     "Athletic 
Contests."     Clarence  Harmstad,  Manager. 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  18: 

Breakfast,  luncheon  and  dinner  at  Headquarters. 

10:30  a.  m.  *Annual  Yale  Alumni   Meeting  at   Sprague   Memorial   Hall, 

126  College  Street   (where  President  Dwight's  house  was 

when  we  were  at  College).     Addresses  by  President  and 

representative  graduates. 

12:15  p.  m.  *Memorial  Service,  Battell  Chapel,  in  loving  memory  of  Dean 

Henry  P.  Wright. 
2:45  p.  m.     '93  Class  Reunion  Meeting,  Headquarters. 
3:15  p.  m.     Class  Reunion  Picture:   On  steps  at  Chapel  Street  entrance 
to  Osborn  Hall.     No  cuts  allowed. 


*  Events  starred  are  from  University  Calendar. 


TWENTY-FIFTH  REUNION  13 

4:00  p.  M.  *A11  Graduates  assemble  on  College  Campus.  Procession  to 
Hewitt  University  Quadrangle  (on  block  bounded  by  High, 
College,  Wall  and  Grove  Streets,  in  angle  made  by  Dining 
Hall  and  Woolsey  Hall). 

4:30  p.  m.  *Patriotic  Meeting  of  assembled  Yale  Alumni  and  Under- 
graduates, Hewitt  Quadrangle.     Let  no  one  miss  this. 

7:30  p.  M.  Twenty-fifth  Reunion  Dinner,  Headquarters.  John  Robin- 
son, toastmaster.  Unanimous  attendance  expected  and 
required. 

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  19: 

10:00  a.  M.  *Annual  Commencement  Procession  from  College  Campus  to 

Woolsey  Hall. 
10:30  a.  m.  *Commencement  Exercises,  Woolsey  Hall. 
12:45  p.  m.  ^Assembly    of    Alumni,    Hewitt    Quadrangle,    preparatory    to 
Annual  Alumni  Dinner. 
1  :oo  p.  m.  *Annual    Alumni    Dinner,    Yale    Dining    Hall.      Free    to    all. 
Everyone  should  attend  this,  as  it  is  one  of  the  events  of 
Commencement  Week. 
4:30-6:00  p.  m.  *President's  Reception,  Memorial  Hall. 


MISCELLANEOUS 

The  Class  Fund,  as  usual,  provides  the  foregoing  Class  arrangements 
without  charge,  and,  in  addition,  a  substantial  Reunion  Gift  to  Yale. 
Men  who  have  reserved  lodgings  in  the  Hotel  Taft  incur  a  special  charge. 

No  uniforms ;  no  band ;  only  Class  insignia  will  be  hatbands  with  Class 
numerals. 

Some  of  the  men  want  it  known  that  they  are  thinking  of  bringing 
along  their  blue  serge  coats  and  their  white  trousers. 

Golfers  and  tennis  men  may  use  the  New  Haven  Country  Club,  signing 
slips  which  the  Committee  will  take  charge  of. 

Automobiles :  Garage  facilities  and  accommodations  for  chauffeurs  may 
be  obtained  on  application  to  desk  at  Headquarters. 

Finally:  An  even  hundred  men  have  already  signed  up  for  the  Reunion, 
with  the  probability  of  twenty-five  more,  thus  exceeding  all  previous 
records.  Such  a  response  shows  that  '93  men  realize  that  the  Reunion  this 
year  (in  addition  to  its  being  our  "Twenty-fifth")  is  one  not  to  be 
missed, — taking  place  as  it  will  in  the  midst  of  a  memorable  Yale  gathering 
of  Alumni  and  Undergraduates,  assembled  at  the  special  instance  and 
request  of  the  University  authorities.  The  War  Time  patriotic  thrill  and 
inspiration  will  give  it  a  distinction  that  has  not  been  present  and  may 
not  recur,  in  any  of  our  reunions. 


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CHARLES  J.   FAY,   CHAIRMAN 

14    WALL    STREET.    NEW    YORK    CITY 

'Phone   Rector   8790 


WILLIAM    R.   BEGG  WILLIAM    H.   HACKETT 

24   BROAD  STREET,  NEW  YORK  CITY  38   LYNWOOD  PLACE,  NEW  HAVEN,  CONN. 

'Phone  Rector  4600 

GERALD   M.  BORDEN  EDWARD   M.  WILLIAMS 

35   EAST  51ST  STREET,  NEW  YORK  CITY  CLEVELAND,  OHIO 

'Phone  Plaza  2610 


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NOAH    H.  SWAYNE,  2nd 

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WASHINGTON.   D.  C. 


OUR   REPRESENTATIVE  IN   CHARGE  OF 

HEADQUARTERS   BUREAU.   HOTEL  TAFT 

THOMAS    F.  CLARK 


THE  REUNION 

To  Frank  Gatchel  goes  the  honor  of  being  number  one  on  the 
register  on  Saturday  morning,  June  15,  1918.  Frank  was  accom- 
panied by  his  young  son,  "Bill,"  and  closely  followed  by  Wil- 
liams, Harvey,  Hay,  Trask,  and  Yates,  burdened  with  the  happy 
dignity  of  being  the  first  grandfather  in  the  Class.  Wilcox,  hav- 
ing dodged  submarines  all  the  way  from  Cuba,  arrived  in  the 
afternoon  with  Shaw  and  Colonel  Ficken.  Twenty-five  dined 
together  at  headquarters  and  handed  to  Fay,  chairman  of  the 
Reunion  Committee,  the  first  of  a  long  series  of  bouquets  for  the 
completeness  of  the  arrangements  for  the  comfort  of  the  men 
who  attended,  and  for  his  wisdom  in  going  ahead  with  his  plan 
to  use  the  top  floor  of  the  Taft  for  headquarters  and  club  rooms. 
This  feature,  with  cheap  and  comfortable  sleeping  quarters  in 
Durfee,  made  an  ideal  arrangement. 

By  Saturday  night  there  were  thirty  present,  eleven  more  than 
at  the  same  time  five  years  before. 

On  Sunday  morning  many  heard  the  baccalaureate  sermon, 
and  a  few  went  to  the  New  Haven  Country  Club  for  golf  and 
tennis.  Frank  Donnelly  averred  that  his  score  would  have  been 
better  had  not  a  mosquito  bitten  him  on  the  first  tee.  All  lunched 
together  at  headquarters.  Arrivals  during  the  lunch  were  Mrs. 
Fay  and  John,  Mrs.  Hay  and  two  daughters,  and  Fox  with  the 
two   "little  Foxes,"   each  somewhat  over  six  feet  tall. 

Immediately  after  lunch  someone  got  Gatchel  a  guitar,  which 
he  played  with  the  old  assurance  and  facility.  Everybody  gath- 
ered around  him  and  had  an  old-fashioned  "sing"  for  nearly 
three  hours.  All  the  old  favorites  were  revived:  The  Days  of 
'93,  Mary  Green,  Denny  Grady's  Hack,  Down  by  the  Riverside, 
Predicaments,  The  Fishers  Swore  a  Feud,  Hold  the  Ball,  Down 
the  Field,  and  a  host  of  others. 

Major  Louis  B.  Runk,  the  only  one  of  our  men  in  uniform  who 
could  attend  the  reunion,  arrived  during  the  singing. 

At  five  o'clock  the  party  moved  to  Woolsey  Hall  to  hear  Pro- 
fessor Harry  Jepson's  organ  recital.  There  were  many  expres- 
sions of  regret  that  his  modesty  should  have  kept  his  own 
compositions  ofT  the  program,  which  was  as  follows : 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


GIGOUT— Grand  Choeur  Dialogue. 
KARG-ELERT— Improvisation,  Op.  34  b. 

(Ostinato  e  Fughetta.) 
BACH — Toccata  in  F  major. 
FRANCK— Piece  Heroique. 
JONGEN— Caprice,  Op.  37,  No.  2. 
ROPARTZ— Priere  pour  les  Trepasses. 
RACHMANINOFF— Serenade. 
VIERNE— Final 

from  the  First  Organ  Symphony,  Op.  14. 


Grra*tdfa*lier*  Vate*  a*d  (Br©v«i)  Dwigkt* 


Trolley  cars  and  automobiles  took  the  men  to  Momauguin  for 
a  shore  supper.  Forty-one  men  and  four  sons, — Hastings'  boy 
in  his  army  uniform,  the  little  Foxes,  and  Bill  Gatchel.     During 

supper  Q.  Dwight  arrived  and 
was  greeted  with  loud  applause. 
Dr.  Roby,  as  toastmaster,  called 
upon  "Deacon"  Yates  to  ask 
the  blessing,  which  the  "Deacon" 
did  so  fluently  that  the  absence 
of  the  clergy  was  hardly  noticed. 
With  the  aid  of  a  small  orchestra, 
or  perhaps  in  spite  of  it,  there 
was  a  great  deal  of  singing  dur- 
ing supper. 

Roby  led  the  Class  cheer,  "The 
Equation  of  Intercept  B,"    and 
called  on  Wendell  Strong  to  ex- 
plain its  meaning.    Wendell  confessed  that  if  he  ever  had  known 
he  didn't  know  now. 

"Deacon"  Yates  was  then  called  upon  to  tell  "Tales  of  a 
Grandfather."  The  most  noteworthy  feature  of  his  response  was 
his  grin. 

Roby  then  turned  to  serious  things.  He  said  that  he  was  in 
doubt  as  to  his  present  duty,  and  uncertain  whether  he  ought  to 
get  into  uniform  or,  his  chief  having  gone  into  uniform,  he  ought 
to  remain  in  his  present  work  as  Health  Officer  of  Rochester. 
He  felt  that  the  one  most  important  thing  just  at  this  time  is  the 
health  of  the  army.  This  has  been  brought  up  to  present  stand- 
ards by  vaccination,  inoculation,  and  experimental  vivisection. 
Whatever  our  personal  views  on  these  practices,  he  felt  that  we 
should  not  actively  oppose  them  during  the  war  because  opposi- 
tion or  criticism  tends  to  undermine  the  discipline  of  the  army. 


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He  said  that  active  opposition  was  confined  to  a  relatively  small 
number  and  centered  chiefly  in  one  periodical.  He  believed  that 
that  periodical  should  be  silenced  and  could  be  if  men  like  our- 
selves would  take  active  steps  to  silence  it.  He  was  not  at  all 
certain  that  a  class  reunion  meeting  was  just  the  body  to  start 
such  a  movement,  but  to  arouse  discussion  he  was  going  to  ask 
Dick  Holbrook  to  read  some  resolutions  on  the  subject.  In 
closing  he  said  that  if  the  deaths  from  typhoid  in  the  army  had 
been  the  same  in  the  last  four  months  of  191 7  as  in  the  Spanish 
war  there  would  have  occurred  in  those  four  months  15,000 
deaths  from  that  cause  instead  of  the  144  which  actually  occurred. 
Asserting  that  if  periodicals  such  as  he  mentioned  were  to  be 
silenced  the  movement  must  originate  with  laymen  and  not  with 
the  medical  profession,  he  called  upon  Holbrook  to  read  the 
resolutions. 

The  resolutions  were  enthusiastically  received.  Scoville 
promptly  seconded  them,  remarking  that  we  should  not  tolerate 
sneers  at  the  great  things  of  life.  John  Morgan  followed,  voicing 
his  general  approval  but  suggesting  postponement  of  action  for 
further  consideration.  Ed  Williams  was  much  in  favor  of  the 
movement  but  afraid  that  action  by  us  might  do  more  harm  than 
good.  He  felt  that  the  initial  publicity  ought  to  come  from  some 
other  source  than  a  class  reunion  supper.  Cravens  spoke  in 
much  the  same  strain.  Holbrook  then  suggested  that  we  might 
individually  accomplish  something.  Scoville  then  suggested 
reference  to  a  committee  with  approval  and  with  instructions  to 
consider  such  action  as  might  be  best  calculated  to  produce  favor- 
able results.  Donnelly  suggested  postponement  for  twenty-four 
hours  for  consideration.  Hastings  thought  that  the  entire  alumni 
body  should  be  consulted.  Strong  said  that  he  knew  one  of  the 
editors  of  the  periodical  in  question  and  felt  that  he  might  per- 
haps be  persuaded  to  drop  this  subject  during  the  war  as  he  felt 
sure  that  he  was  patriotic.  Harmstad  thought  that  all  that  was 
necessary  was  to  bring  the  matter  to  the  attention  of  the  United 
States  Attorney  for  New  York.  Fay  questioned  the  amount  of 
harm  that  this  particular  journal  could  do  and  agreed  with  Harm- 
stad that  the  Department  of  Justice  could  be  relied  upon  to  act. 
Holbrook  ended  this  discussion  by  stating  that  the  object  of  the 
resolutions  was  to  start  discussion  and  that  that  object  had  been 
accomplished.  Roby  then  introduced  Williams  to  tell  of  his 
work  on  the  Board  of  Education,  the  Liberty  Loans,  and  the  War 
Chest  Committee  of  Cleveland. 


1 8  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Williams  said  that  Cleveland  had  had  fifteen  years  of  expe- 
rience of  federated  giving  through  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
which  represented  eighty  per  cent  of  the  givers.  The  propaganda 
of  numerous  campaigns  for  educational  purposes  was  not  needed 
in  Cleveland.  He  said  that  the  Board  of  Education  began  with 
a  preliminary  campaign,  before  war  was  declared  by  the  Presi- 
dent, arranging  all  school  lessons  for  three  weeks.  The  first  week 
had  as  its  topic  "Winning  Freedom/'  the  second  week  "Sharing 
Freedom,"  and  the  third  week  "Securing  Freedom."  All  the 
lessons,  English,  history,  geography,  etc.,  were  so  chosen  as  to 
emphasize  these  topics  and  finally  each  child  was  compelled  to 
write  a  composition  to  be  taken  home  and  read  to  its  parents  on 
each  topic.  He  said  that  eighty  per  cent  of  the  population  of 
Cleveland  is  foreign  born  or  first  generation  descendants  of 
foreign  born  and  that  there  are  100,000  Germans,  largely  of  vot- 
ing age,  and  not  naturalized.  Through  the  children's  lessons, 
and  through  meetings  held  nightly  in  school  auditoriums,  and 
through  a  great  pageant  these  people  were  reached  and  educated. 
The  result  of  this  was  500,000  contributors  to  the  War  Chest 
out  of  a  population  of  800,000. 

This  ended  a  highly  successful  supper.  The  night  adjournment 
at  headquarters  followed  with  forty-five  on  the  register. 

On  Monday  morning  there  were  many  arrivals,  including  two 
of  the  Clergy,  Goodenough  with  his  daughter,  and  Mathison. 
The  morning  was  spent  at  headquarters  where  all  lunched 
together. 

In  the  afternoon  everyone  went  to  the  New  Haven  Country 
Club.  After  golf  and  tennis,  there  was  a  baseball  game  with  a 
soft  ball  between  teams  captained  by  Parsons  and  Robinson 
assisted  by  Bill  Gatchel  and  Joe  Roby,  Jr.  This  was  followed 
by  a  foot  race,  100  yards,  for  men  weighing  over  175  pounds. 
The  starters  were  J.  W.  Allen,  Goodenough,  Hurlbert,  Mathison, 
Scoville,  and  Strong.  Goodenough,  barefooted,  won  by  a  good 
margin  from  Scoville,  in  stocking  feet,  who  was  the  only  real 
contender.  Harvey  and  Chisholm  then  won  a  putting  contest 
from  Lambert  and  Harmstad.  The  result  of  this  match  was 
influenced  by  Skee's  fatigue,  resulting  from  his  arduous  duties 
as  Manager  of  Athletic  Events. 

Seventy-three  classmates,  and  three  sons,  were  entertained  dur- 
ing dinner  by  piano  solos  by  Skee.  Colonel  Ficken  acted  as 
toastmaster. 


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2o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

The  stenographic  report  of  the  speaking,  somewhat  expurgated, 
follows : — 

The  Toastmaster:  Now,  gentlemen,  to-night  we  are  going  to 
have  Mr.  Cravens  speak  to  us. 

Voices:   No,  no. 

The  Toastmaster:  He  will  speak  to  us  on  the  Washington 
Viewpoint  of  the  War. 

Mr.  Cravens:   Mr.  Toastmaster  and  classmates — 

A  Voice:   Dear  classmates. 

Mr.  Cravens:  About  a  week  ago  I  received  a  note  from  Jack 
Robinson  asking  me  to  speak  here  to-night,  and  I  was  a  little 
disposed  to  decline  because  under  any  circumstances  any  kind 
of  speechmaking  is  a  thoroughly  non-essential  industry  with  me 
(shouts  of  dissent)  and  ought  to  be  suppressed.  I  might  make  a 
very  humorous  speech,  but  I  will  be  serious.  I  was  going  to 
decline  but  Jack  Robinson  puts  it  so  nicely  that  you  can't  very 
well  say  no.  Instead  of  being  a  prince  of  good  fellows  he  ought 
to  be  the  king  of  confidence  men.  Now  when  I  get  up  here  I 
find  instead  of  working  for  Jack  I  am  working  for  Henry  Ficken. 

When  Jack  wrote  me  I  wondered  what  I  would  talk  to  you 
about.  Down  in  Washington  a  few  days  ago  I  was  thinking  of 
talking  a  little  bit — 

A  Member:  Does  that  mean  you  had  six  months  to  prepare  this 
speech  ? 

Mr.  Cravens:  I  was  rather  confident  in  my  ideas  that  that  was 
a  pretty  good  thing  to  talk  about. 

A  Member:  Get  through  with  the  explanation  and  come  to  the 
speech.     (Laughter.) 

Mr.  Cravens:  Now  seriously,  I  am  going  to  talk  for  a  few 
minutes  about  the  Council  of  National  Defense,  its  organization, 
its  composition,  and  how  it  functions.  You  needn't  be  afraid 
that  I  have  a  long  speech  prepared,  for  I  have  come  up  here  for 
part  of  the  only  vacation  I  shall  get  this  summer. 

I  know  some  of  you  are  very  familiar  with  part  of  what  the 
Council  of  National  Defense  is  doing,  and  a  great  many  are  not. 
The  Council  of  National  Defense  was  organized  in  the  latter  part 
of  1916  by  an  act  of  Congress.  It  is  composed  of  six  members 
of  Mr.  Wilson's  cabinet, — the  Secretaries  of  War,  Navy,  Interior, 
Commerce,  Labor,  and  Agriculture.  The  Secretary  of  War  is 
the  chairman.  Mr.  Walter  Gifford,  who  had  heretofore  been  the 
chief  statistician  of  the  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Com- 
pany, is  director  of  the  Council.    Its  purposes  and  objects  are  to 


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investigate,  advise  and  organize.  It  is  not  in  itself  a  functioning 
body.  Shortly  after  the  outbreak  of  the  war  Mr.  Baker,  as 
chairman  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense,  wrote  a  letter  to 
each  one  of  the  governors  of  the  states  asking  that  there  be 
appointed  in  each  one  of  the  states  a  State  Council  of  Defense. 
That  was  on  April  9th  last  year.  In  response  to  that  request 
there  has  been  formed  in  each  one  of  the  states  and  in  the  terri- 
tory of  Alaska  and  in  the  District  of  Columbia  a  State  Council 
of  Defense.  Some  states  call  them  "Committees  of  Public  Safety" 
but  they  are  all  State  Councils  of  Defense.  There  is  one  central 
council.  In  addition  to  that  the  Council  of  course  is  naturally 
subdivided  into  different  sections  to  conduct  particular  lines  of 
activity.  There  is  a  War  Industries  Bureau,  a  Women's  Com- 
mittee, the  Highways  Transport  Committee,  and  the  General 
Medical  Board.  I  have  forgotten  the  others;  there  are  several 
of  them.  The  section  with  which  I  am  personally  connected  is 
the  State  Council  Section  and  it  is  of  their  activities  that  I  want 
to  speak  because  it  is  the  one  that  I  do  know  something  about. 

The  business  of  our  section  is  working  with  the  State  Councils 
of  Defense.  Under  the  State  Councils  there  have  been  organized 
the  County  Councils,  and  the  extension  of  the  organization  now 
is  to  the  community  councils  under  the  county  councils.  There 
are  about  4,800  county  councils  in  the  states, — about  one  hundred 
to  each  state  on  the  average.  I  don't  know  the  number  of  com- 
munity councils  that  will  be  eventually  organized,  but  I  presume 
in  the  neighborhood  of  45,000. 

The  work  of  the  State  Council  is  divided,  it  might  be  said, 
into  four  general  lines  of  activity;  first,  the  awakening  of  the 
people  to  the  war,  what  the  war  means  and  what  must  be  done 
to  win  it;  second,  the  coordination  of  all  the  different  agencies 
that  are  trying  to  help  the  Federal  government  in  its  work  of 
prosecuting  the  war;  third,  the  direct  cooperation  by  the  state 
councils  with  the  Federal  representatives  in  the  respective  states ; 
and  in  addition  to  that  the  State  Council  Section  acts  as  a  clear- 
ing house  between  the  different  states,  transmitting  to  each  other 
the  different  experiences  and  the  results  obtained.  You  might 
say  the  fourth  activity  of  the  State  Council  organization  is  the 
initiation  of  such  work  as  might  be  required  in  the  several  states 
that  does  not  result  from  requests  and  instructions  from  Wash- 
ington. As  instances  of  how  the  coordination  goes,  there  are 
numberless  agencies  doing  all  forms  of  war  work,  both  relief  and 
educational.     In  New  York  Citv  alone  there  are  something  like 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


one  hundred  agencies  established  in  one  form  or  other  of  that 
work,  all  helpful,  all  well-intentioned  but  frequently  misguided 
and  confused.  One  of  the  functions  of  the  State  Council  body  is 
to  take  that  work  in  hand  and  through  the  State  Council  and  the 
County  Council  to  direct  and  coordinate  that  work  to  eliminate 
lost  motion  and  waste  and  lack  of  efficiency.  Another  work  in 
the  direction  of  cooperation  with  Federal  agencies  might  be  illus- 


ScTnr©ckliclik?i-tr  at  First"  Base 


trated  in  this,  that  when  the  Fuel  Administrator  wanted  to  extend 
the  organization  by  appointing  Fuel  Administrators  in  the 
respective  states  the  Fuel  Administration  asked  the  state  councils 
to  nominate  men  who  would  be  best  fitted  to  hold  those  posts, 
and  most  of  them  were  appointed  that  way.  The  same  thing 
applies  to  the  Food  Administration,  and  to  the  work  of  the 
several  federal  agencies  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture. 
Plans  have  been  laid  by  the  state  councils  to  enlarge  food  pro- 
duction and  to  obtain  labor  for  making  the  harvest.     In  con- 


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junction  with  the  War  Department  we  have  been  of  great 
assistance  to  General  Crowder  in  getting  assistants  on  the  draft 
boards.  The  State  Councils  have  trained  organizations  for  pro- 
viding legal  aid  for  men  about  to  enlist.  We  are  holding  through 
the  same  organizations  meetings  for  draft  men,  men  who  are 
about  to  go  into  the  military  service,  and  we  get  a  military  man 
to  give  them  talks  on  what  military  life  is  and  what  it  means; 
a  good  lawyer  who  is  interested  in  the  work  will  tell  them  some- 
thing about  what  they  ought  to  do  and  what  they  may  do  to 
protect  themselves  as  they  are  about  to  go  to  war ;  a  member  of 
the  medical  section  will  speak  to  them  and  tell  them  something 
about  their  bodies  and  the  care  of  their  bodies.  In  conjunction 
with  the  authorities  the  State  Councils  have  worked  in  the  Red 
Cross  campaigns,  and  in  many  cases  they  have  conducted  them. 
Those  are  illustrations  of  what  the  state  and  county  councils 
are  doing  to  cooperate  with  the  Federal  agencies  as  well  as  with 
the  agencies  conducting  more  immediate  work. 

But  of  all  the  work  that  the  council  agencies  are  doing, 
unquestionably  the  most  important  is  that  which  pertains  to  the 
education  of  the  people  in  what  the  war  really  means.  In  our 
country,  in  the  last  analysis,  there  is  one  thing  that  is  needful, 
and  there  is  only  one,  and  that  is  a  well  ordered  and  a  crystallized 
public  opinion.  With  that  there  is  very  little  that  is  impossible, 
and  without  it  everything  will  of  itself  fall  to  the  ground.  A  well 
ordered  public  opinion  is  the  only  means  that  a  democracy  has  of 
imposing  its  own  conclusions  upon  itself.  Little  short  of  actual 
sedition  is  that  deadly  apathy,  that  empty  optimism  so  charac- 
teristic of  the  American  people.  It  is  to  reach  those  people  that 
is  one  of  the  tasks  that  we  have,  to  give  them  eyes  that  will  see 
and  ears  that  will  hear  and  an  understanding  that  will  compre- 
hend. It  is  to  wake  them  and  to  arouse  them  and  to  enlist  their 
active  support  behind  the  war  that  is  one  of  the  tasks  of  the 
Council  of  National  Defense,  and  we  found  that  the  county 
councils  were  doing  that  only  in  part,  and  so  we  turned  to  the 
fourth  activity,  the  organization  of  the  community  councils. 
They  are  the  terminals  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense 
system,  the  long  arm  as  it  were  that  will  reach  out  and  get  into 
the  body  of  the  state  militant  every  individual  member  of  the 
community.  That  work  is  done  by  organization  of  the  com- 
munity into  such  units  that  every  member  of  the  community  can 
feel  that  he  has  found  a  place  where  he  can  do  something  in  the 
war  work  of  the  government,  where  every  worker  may  find  his 


24  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

work  and  where  there  may  be  a  work  for  every  worker.  That 
is  done  through  a  general  propaganda  campaign,  through  the 
Speakers  Bureau  of  the  State  Council  of  Defense,  through  other 
general  publicity,  through  meetings,  through  war  rallies,  and, 
further,  through  personal  contact  with  men  and  women  of  the 
community.  It  is  a  clear  case  of  trying  to  beat  apathy  and  a 
propaganda  of  sedition  by  counter  propaganda  that  will  make 
them  see  our  way. 

Now  that  is  the  present  task  of  the  Council  of  National 
Defense ;  and  when  I  speak  of  that  I  speak  (please  understand 
me)  of  our  section  because  other  sections  of  the  council  also  have 
their  work  of  just  as  great,  if  not  greater,  importance.  That  is 
our  work  for  the  present,  but  there  is  something  to  be  thought 
of  the  future. 

I  have  said  for  a  long  time  that  victory  would  be  perfectly 
profitless  unless  it  should  bring  with  it  an  understanding  and  a 
knowledge  that  will  enable  us  to  properly  solve  the  problems 
that  will  necessarily  come  with  that  victory.  There  is  not  one 
of  us  who  is  thinking  in  the  same  terms  that  we  thought  a  few 
years  or  even  a  few  months  ago.  If  that  is  true  of  us  over  here, 
how  much  more  is  it  true  of  the  fellows  who  have  gone  over 
there.  They  are  doing  for  us  now ;  what  are  we  planning  to  do 
for  them?  Their  point  of  view  will  be  changing.  They  will  see 
things  with  a  new  vision.  Life  will  look  a  little  different  to 
them  when  they  come  back.  Our  whole  order,  industrial,  social, 
and  political,  will  be  undergoing,  must  undergo,  mighty  read- 
justment. In  the  new  order  of  things  we  must  find  a  place  for 
millions  who  will  come  back  here,  find  the  means  by  which  they 
shall  be  re-incorporated  into  the  new  order, — and  that  without 
friction,  and  as  quickly  as  possible.  This  Council  of  National 
Defense  and  its  subordinate  organizations,  the  state  councils, 
are  already  giving  thought  to  that  problem.  The  term  of  life 
of  the  council  is  already  made  by  legislation  to  extend  to  a  cer- 
tain period  beyond  the  end  of  the  war,  because  everybody  recog- 
nizes that  not  only  must  a  work  be  done  then  but  it  must  be 
done  by  those  who  are  thinking  about  it  now.  It  is  a  problem 
to  seek  for  the  answer ;  we  must  not  wait  until  the  problem  is 
upon  us  with  its  full  gravity. 

Therefore  to  the  present  task  of  winning  the  war  is  added  the 
task  which  in  my  opinion  will  require  more  statesmanship, 
patience,  and  wisdom  than  the  conduct  of  the  war  itself. 

Have  you  heard  about  the  man  from  the  South  who  entered 


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25 


the  war?  He  came  from  one  of  those  southern  districts  where 
the  family  feud  was  rather  the  order  of  the  day,  and  he  played 
a  full  part  in  that  game.  Somebody  asked  him  if  he  had  ever 
been  to  war  before  and  he  said  that  he  had  had  lots  of  private 
fighting  down  his  way  but  this  was  the  first  public  war  he  had 
ever  been  in.  Now  this  is  a  public  war  and  the  question  every 
one  of  us  has  got  to  ask  himself  is  not  "Am  I  doing  something 
to  help,"   but   "Am  I  doing  all  that  I  can?" 

That  great  service  flag  that  hangs  over  the  entrance  to  the 
Yale  Club  in  New  York  bearing  its  silent  testimony  to  what 
Yale  men  in  arms  are  doing  is  always  a  source  of  inspiration  to 


f 

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attd  otliar* 


A  Notable  Entry  m  the  Putting  Contest 

me.  For  myself,  I  thank  Heaven  that  when  the  opportunity  to 
serve  came,  I  was  so  situated  that  I  could  answer  the  call.  Often 
I  feel  that  there  is  really  little  that  I  am  doing,  but  I  do  have 
the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  I  am  doing  so  far  as  in  me 
lies.  If  I  could  name  a  single  resolve  that  I  might  like  to  awake 
in  some  or  to  confirm  in  others  it  would  be  a  resolve  to  follow 
without  turning  that  gospel  to  which  we  all  subscribe,  no  matter 
how  our  creed  is  fashioned  or  what  faith  we  profess,  and  that 
is  the  gospel  of  helpfulness  and  undivided  loyalty.  It  is  the 
gospel  that  must  be  driven  into  the  hearts  of  as  nearly  every- 
one as  may  be  of  our  hundred  million  people  if  we  are  to  carry 
through  to  a  successful  issue  this  cause  upon  the  success  of 
which  certainly  hangs  the  future  of  Anglo-Saxon  civilization, 
and  if  we  are  really  to  have  a  great  state,  a  unified  republic, 


26  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

which  shall  be  dedicated  to  one  principle  and  one  purpose  and 
one  performance.     (Applause.) 

The  Toastmaster:  Just  a  few  days  before  I  left  home  the 
Council  of  Defense,  whose  able  work  has  been  referred  to,  sent 
a  telegram  to  our  chief  of  police  and  it  advised  him  to  close 
industries  that  were  not  essential  throughout  the  country.  Well, 
he  immediately  got  busy  and  he  told  the  electric  light  company 
not  to  turn  any  more  lights  on  in  the  red  light  district.  Now  I 
want  to  hear  from  Mr.  Warnock  what  the  people  in  Pennsylvania 
regard  as  non-essential. 

Mr.  Warnock:  "Brethren  of  '93":  To  adopt  the  phrase  that 
Allen  gave  us,  I  believe,  or  "Old  Veterans  of  '93,"  I  must 
confess  that  the  colonel  has  me  guessing  when  he  starts  in,  and 
that's  a  good  scheme  for  I  have  two  guesses  now. 

The  question  of  non-essential  industry  I  suppose  is  a  pretty 
large  one.  I  know  a  large  section  of  Young  America  who  think 
that  the  chief  non-essential  industry  is  that  of  education,  and  I 
don't  know  but  they  may  be  right.  Sometimes  at  the  end  of  the 
year  the  teacher  has  got  to  that  point  of  pessimism  that  he  thinks 
that  teaching  is  a  non-essential  industry,  except  for  the  salary 
he  draws.    That,  of  course,  is  quite  an  important  feature. 

When  Henry  asked  me  this  afternoon  if  I  wouldn't  say  some- 
thing to  you  I  weakly  said  yes,  and  forgot  all  about  it,  I  was  so 
busy  talking  with  everybody  and  hearing  everybody,  and  having 
such  a  good  time  that  I  really  didn't  have  time  to  prepare  any- 
thing; so  what  I  am  going  to  say  is  extemporaneous.  It  seems 
to  me  if  I  only  could  I  should  like  to  adopt  the  statement  that 
Gladstone  is  said  once  to  have  made,  that  eloquence  consists  in 
drawing  in  as  a  mist  the  inspiration  from  an  audience  and  pour- 
ing it  out  as  a  flood.  Well,  we  have  had  the  flood  and  the  elo- 
quence is  missing.  But  I  do  feel  as  we  gather  here  together 
that  this  is  one  of  the  times  when  we  find  that  education  after 
all  has  been  a  great  success.  When  we  look  over  a  gathering 
like  this,  made  up  of  so  many  men  who  have  achieved  so  much, — 
their  achievements  by  the  way  we  are  aware  of  not  so  much  by 
what  they  say  as  by  what  they  leave  unsaid — I  think  we  realize 
that  education  is  not  a  non-essential  but  the  one  essential  industry 
of  this  country.  Cravens  also  has  verified  that  in  stating  that 
it  takes  brains  of  the  highest  kind  and  brains  of  the  most  devoted 
kind  to  carry  out  a  great  enterprise  such  as  we  are  engaged  in. 
I  feel,  as  we  gather  together  and  see  how  each  one  has  gone  his 
way  since  we  received  our  diplomas,  every  one  bears  more  or  less 


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of  the  scars  of  the  conflict;  and  I  think  most  of  us  have  also 
some  palms  of  victory  which  we  have  won,  and  deservedly  won. 
I  feel  that  coming-  back  to  such  a  reunion  as  this  is  a  great 
inspiration.  You  fellows  who  are  in  the  thick  of  the  fight  and, 
I  suppose,  get  awful  tired  of  it,  have  this  satisfaction  at  any 
rate,  that  we  who  are  more  or  less  spectators  receive  inspiration 
and  help  from  you.  Education  seems  to  me,  to  misquote  the 
quotation,  to  take  the  best  things  of  the  world  and  preserve  them 
unto  the  young  generation  so  they  shall  grasp  the  principles  on 
which  we  are  proceeding,  that  they  may  adopt  and  improve  the 
principles  which  their  fathers  have  laid  down  and  fought  for  to 
make  our  heritage  secure  forever. 

It  seems  to  me  that  the  solidarity  of  this  Class  has  been  as 
great  as,  and  possibly  greater  than,  any  of  the  other  classes  I 
have  any  intimate  knowledge  of,  and  I  suppose  when  we  get  to 
Heaven  we  still  shall  be  characterized  in  the  same  way  we  have 
been  since  graduation.  I  for  my  part  shall  expect  that  Swayne 
will  furnish  our  biographies  to  Saint  Peter,  and  I  am  quite  sure 
that  Fay's  job  will  be  to  give  us  proper  housing  accommodations 
in  that  other  land.  Now  then  with  men  like  Strong  to  insure  our 
lives,  why  worry  ? 

I  was  thinking  as  I  sat  here  of  the  time  when  we  all  suffered 
and  bled  together  on  an  occasion  of  the  Freshman  year  when 
we  read  what  Charlie  Moore  used  to  call  the  Amisishia.  The 
"Amicitia,"  it  seems  to  me,  means  something  very  different 
to-day.  It  has  a  meaning  more  than  Cicero  ever  gave  to  it, — a 
meaning  which  we  have  wrought  out  for  ourselves  by  rubbing  up 
against  each  other.  We  have  become  in  a  real  sense  a  part  of 
what  we  have  met;  in  the  first  place  a  part  of  each  other,  and 
in  the  second  place  a  part  of  a  pretty  large  world  which  we  have 
been  able  to  cover.  I  am  quite  sure  that  that  large  world. — and 
I  may  say  for  myself  that  I  also  am  part  of  you  and  the  world 
is  a  part  of  what  it  has  met.  In  other  words,  each  man  here 
has  given  a  part  of  himself  to  some  good  and  useful  purpose. 

Now,  as  we  gather  here  year  after  year  we  are  going  to  find 
these  ties  of  friendship  grow  much  stronger  in  what  may  be  the 
brighter  memories  of  that  particular  amicitia.  It  may  be  sweet- 
ened a  great  deal  in  that  sense,  so  to  speak,  by  what  we  are 
thinking  each  for  himself. 

Furthermore,  we  are  going  to  move  on  in  about  the  same  way  as 
our  fellows  are  who  are  spread  abroad  over  the  whole  world,  and 
whom  we  are  growing  to  know  more  fully  than  before.    We  can 


28  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

feel  that  '93  is  really  putting  its  name  on  the  map,  and  I  am  quite 
sure  that  the  world  will  have  been  better  that  a  fellow  will  have 
gone  on  these  frontier  regions  and  there  given  good  account 
of  himself  in  one  of  these  different  ways.  I  think  too  that  while, 
as  a  great  man  once  said,  the  world  will  little  remember  what 
we  say  here,  it  will  always  remember  what  we  do  here, — I  think 
these  reunions  are  very  precious  to  each  one  of  us.  The  fun  we 
have  and  the  jokes  we  have  are  to  each  one  of  us  a  precious 
memory,  and  I  think  as  we  go  on  these  will  be  beautified  by  our 
lives,  by  the  haze  of  memory  through  which  we  look  at  these 
things,  and  as  the  sun  rises  every  morning  and  touches  them  with 
the  glory  of  beauty  we  shall  have  in  our  lives  the  beautifying 
each  day  of  these  occasions.  We  have  a  school  song  written  by 
an  eminent  man  in  Richmond,  Virginia.  He  says,  in  the  close  of 
that  song,  "Each  one  shall  do  his  single  best"  and  I  am  quite 
sure  we  can  adopt  that  to  ourselves.  And  he  says  "Each  one 
shall  stand  his  single  test"  and  I  think  we  can  justly  say  we  have 
done  that.  And  he  winds  up  by  saying  "with  back  of  each  the 
strength  of  all."  That's  the  thing,  and  it  is  most  heartening. 
Every  one  wherever  he  goes  can  be  sure  of  this  one  fact,  that 
back  of  him  is  the  strength  of  the  Class  of  '93.     (Applause.) 

The  Toast  master:  Gentlemen,  you  have  heard  Mr.  Warnock 
express  the  appreciation  that  he  feels  in  coming  to  these  meet- 
ings, but  he  only  expresses  in  a  small  degree  the  appreciation 
which  I  feel  and  which  men  who  live  far  apart  from  Yale  life 
as  I  do  must  feel  when  they  come  here.  Where  I  live  there  is 
no  influence  of  Yale  at  all.  I  don't  see  a  Yale  man  once  a  year. 
I  have  always  derived  the  greatest  pleasure  in  the  world  from 
coming  on  here  every  five  years  and  meeting  you  men.  I  go 
back  and  I  look  forward  to  the  next  visit.  My  country  is  a  very 
desolate  country;  plantations  are  very  large  and  the  people  that 
live  on  them  are  very  ignorant.  To  illustrate  what  I  mean: 
About  two  weeks  ago  we  were  cutting  hay  on  a  plantation  very 
near  to  us.  All  of  a  sudden  the  peculiar  sound  was  heard  of  an 
aeroplane, — the  first  one  that  ever  came  over  that  country.  The 
darkies  who  were  cutting  hay  looked  up  and  saw  this  thing  and 
every  fellow  ran.  There  wasn't  one  fellow  left  in  the  field  except 
an  old  nigger  who  couldn't  run;  he  had  to  sit  down  and  take 
what  was  coming.  The  aeroplane  had  to  land  in  just  about 
that  locality  and  the  fellow  got  out  of  the  aeroplane  and  started 
to  walk  to  this  old  nigger,  and  the  old  nigger  looked  at  him, — he 
couldn't  run.     He  was  a  very  polite  old  fellow  and  he  hobbled 


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up  to  the  aviator.  He  pulled  his  wool  and  scratched  the  ground 
with  his  foot  as  he  was  taught  to  do  when  in  the  presence  of  his 
boss  and  he  looked  at  this  man  and  said  "Good  morning,  Massa 
Jesus ;  how  do  you  do,  sir  ?"  The  aviator  looked  at  the  man  and 
didn't  know  exactly  what  to  say.  The  old  nigger  didn't  get  any 
reply,  so  he  looked  at  him  again  and  said  "Say,  boss,  how  did 
you  leave  your  pa?"  That  illustrates  the  atmosphere,  and  you 
can  readily  appreciate  how  much  I  love  to  come  on  here.  That's 
an  absolutely  true  story.    I  never  told  anything  else.     (Laughter.) 


Goodetiougk  re-tains 

ilt©  -Kile  of 

Leading  All  Round  AWtlef© 

When  I  look  over  our  Class  biography  I  notice  the  Reverend 
Goodenough  states  in  his  record  that  he  has  already  married 
fifty  women,  and  I  am  going  to  ask  him  to  explain  to  the  Class 
what  he  means  by  such  a  statement.     (Cheers  for  Goodenough.) 

Mr.  Goodenough:  Mr.  Toastmaster,  such  things  as  an  answer 
to  Nony  Swayne  are  privileged.  I  object  to  answering  anything 
of  the  kind.  Only  a  few  moments  ago  they  were  discussing  here 
in  my  presence  the  intricacies  of  anatomy,  having  as  an  inspira- 
tion, as  they  strung  words  together,  the  coming  of  Aphrodite  out 
of  the  foam  of  the  sea,  and  Doc  Ficken  was  dissecting. 


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I  have  considered  that  if  there  was  anything  I  wished  to  say- 
to  you  gentlemen  it  was  not  along  the  line  that  brother  Ficken 
has  suggested,  although  that  is  undoubtedly  a  very  interesting 
line  of  discussion ;  nor  following  the  enthusiastic  plan  of  brother 
Harmstad,  which  is  undoubtedly  a  harmless  plan;  but  instead 
of  that  taking  this  opportunity  of  saying  in  a  few  well-chosen 
words  something  that  brother  Swayne  suppressed  in  my  biog- 
raphy. He  thought  probably  it  was  camouflage  of  some  kind, 
or  possibly  a  bit  of  boastfulness,  when  I  calmly  recited  a  few 
of  the  things  that  a  minister  is  supposed  to  be  and  to  do. 

Now  there  is  not  one  of  you  that  knows  very  much  about 
country  ministers  of  my  own  persuasion,  and  for  that  reason — 
as  I  explained — 

Begg:   What  is  your  persuasion? 

Mr.  Goodenough:  Perhaps  that  will  come  out  in  the  context. 
(Cheers.)  I  may  say  that  part  of  our  labors  is  in  giving  an  illus- 
tration to  trained  librarians  of  what  books  were  and  how  to  use 
them;  giving  an  explanation  to  teachers  of  the  young  idea  so 
that  they  can  shoot  them  straight;  of  giving  explanations  to 
farmers  of  how  to  till  the  soil  to  make  the  most  out  of  it;  of 
teaching,  in  fact,  every  living  thing  how  to  be  it.  And  the  only 
invitation  that  had  slighted  me  and  passed  me  by  was  to  teach  a 
bunch  of  members  of  the  bar  what  were  the  essentials  of  law. 
I  shall  not  follow  the  suggestion  of  brother  Warnock  who 
referred  to  a  gentleman  as  having  a  congestion  of  ideas  and  a 
diarrhea  of  words.  Undoubtedly  brother  Sutphen  and  others  will 
understand  the  reference.  The  fact  of  the  matter  is  that  I  am 
going  to  follow  the  plan,  as  this  is  an  entirely  extemporaneous 
speech  pushed  upon  me  in  a  moment  just  before  the  remarkable 
excitement  of  the  race,  and  I  will,  therefore,  with  your  kind — 

A  Member:  Take  your  time. 

Mr.  Goodenough:  I  am  now  going  to.  The  point  is  that  we 
were  discussing  words,  what  words  meant;  and  sometimes  you 
men  do  not  realize  that  the  word  religion  means  law  of  the 
ultimate  fact, — re  ligio.  I  am  going  to  call  your  attention  to  that 
fact.  Back  of  any  kind  of  distribution  of  law  such  as  is  shown 
in  the  remarkable  ability  of  one  of  your  number  to  merge  rail- 
roads, and  another  of  your  number  to  follow  the  meanderings 
of  the  feminine  mind  as  it  makes  its  will,  and  another —  (The 
speaker  was  interrupted  by  several  members.)  Ask  Sammy 
Scoville.  And  various  others  of  you  as  you  follow  various  other 
laws,  you  do  not  realize  that  way  back  in  the  early  days  the  parson 


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31 


did  it  all.  He  was  the  man  to  examine  the  leper  to  see  if  the 
spots  had  gone  off  or  not ;  he  was  the  man — even  in  this  enlight- 
ened age  he  has  not  lost  any  of  these  functions.  In  time  of 
emergency  they  come  to  him.  I  had  a  brother  in  the  ministry 
who  went  to  South  Carolina,  and  in  that  benighted  land  they 
had  not  doctors  enough,  and  some  ladies  in  extremities  asked 
him  for  his  services  in  very  confining  conditions.  He  was  able 
to  reach  forth  and  produce  the  man.  Now,  gentlemen,  I  speak 
of  this  as  simply  an  illustration  of  what  the  common  experience 


A  Le£al  Luminary 
learits  \ro  loav<? 
Goodenoaalt  alo»<? 


of  country  clergymen  is.  Again  and  again  he  is  asked  to  enter 
politics  with  Jack  Robinson,  and  to  try  out  one  or  another  cases 
of  his  neighbors  as  they  quarrel  or  fight  one  with  another,  and 
be  a  kind  of  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  grand  juror  and  a  half 
dozen  other  things  all  at  once.  He  is  taught  to  teach,  and  to 
go  on  to  find  that  law,  the  real  law  behind  law,  is  a  part  of  his 
own  life.  He  finds  that  law  is  something  that  men  discover, 
not  make.  And  if  they  try  to  make  that  which  they  have  not 
discovered  they  simply  furbish  up  a  lot  of  nuisances  in  the  form 
of  statutes  that  have  to  be  revised  and  over-revised.  (Applause.) 
The  power  of  law,  in  other  words,  is  something  that  is  in  the 


32  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

nature  of  being.  The  student  of  anatomy  studies  the  law  of 
life;  the  student  of  psychology  studies  that  law  as  it  begins  to 
touch  the  mind  and  spread  abroad  in  real  thought.  The  stu- 
dent of  investments  studies  it  as  it  comes  in  that  particular  form 
of  shuffling  off  this  mortal  coil.  And  again  and  again  the  student 
of  all  these  different  forms  does  not  realize  that  back  and  under- 
neath it  all  is  the  real  law,  religion;  that  is  something  to  which 
they  must  come.  The  creative  force,  what  it  is,  why  it  is,  how 
far  it  extends,  in  what  applications — myriad  applications — it 
treasures  itself ;  to  find  out  that  law  of  being  and  to  express  the 
law  of  fair  play  between  men;  that  is  simply  the  part  of  the 
parson's  former  work  that  the  lawyer  now  takes.  He  was  the 
scribe  of  ancient  days,  and  the  historian  was  the  Pharisee.  When 
they  gathered  together  they  found  that  the  real  underlying  law 
of  all  was  what  they  sought,  and  that  law,  that  law  of  being, 
that  law  of  fair  play,  is  what  Yale  stands  for.  She  hates  shams 
of  all  kinds ;  she  taught  us  all  to  hate  all  kinds  of  hypocrisy, 
all  kinds  of  camouflage,  all  kinds  of  ways  whereby  one  man  tries 
to  get  the  better  of  another  by  underhanded  means, — even  to 
taking  off  his  shoes. 

But  now  the  reason.  Gentlemen,  I  believe  that  you  find  that 
the  oldest  statute  law  is  in  three  codes, — not  the  oldest  in  recorded 
statute  law  perhaps,  but  among  the  oldest,  older  than  the  Roman 
law,  are  the  laws  in  Exodus  and  Leviticus  and  Deuteronomy. 
Those  laws  are  worth  even  a  lawyer's  study.  We  take  for  our 
textbook  the  Bible, — not  because  the  Bible  is  the  only  holy  book 
but  because  the  Bible  has  certain  breadth  of  view  and  power  of 
instruction  and  great,  well-detailed,  information  of  how  men  have 
dealt  with  men  from  time  past  even  until  now,  until  it  becomes 
what  we  believe  to  be  the  highest  and  Christian  revelation  as  to 
how  man  shall  deal  with  man,  doing  unto  others  as  he  would  that 
they  should  do  to  him. 

Now,  gentlemen,  that  is  what  I  probably  would  say  in  longer 
terms  to  some  bar  association  if  it  invited  me  to  address  it,  and 
you  have  had  it  spewed  out  upon  you  as  it  is.  Good-bye.  (Cheers 
and  applause.) 

The  Toastmaster:  The  next  speaker  we  shall  have  the  pleasure 
of  hearing  is  Mr.  Chisholm  and  he  will  tell  us  some  of  the  secrets 
of  the  Steel  Trust. 

Mr.  Chisholm:  Mr.  Toastmaster,  gentlemen  of  '93.  WThy  Jack 
Robinson  asked  me  to  speak  to-night  I  do  not  know  unless  it  is 
to  make  the  speakers  to-morrow  night  shine  in  comparison.     I 


TWENTY-FIFTH  REUNION  33 


was  not  an  orator  while  in  college  and  I  have  not  developed  the 
art  in  the  twenty-five  years  that  have  fled  so  swiftly.  However, 
it  is  up  to  everyone  to  do  his  duty. 

This,  fellow  classmates,  is  a  time  for  action,  not  words.  Each 
and  every  one  of  us  must  not  only  do  his  bit  but  his  all  in  this 
world  conflict  to  maintain  the  ideals  that  Yale  has  always  tried 
to  implant  in  her  sons.  Yale  has  always  maintained  a  high  stand- 
ard of  service  to  the  state,  and  it  is  up  to  the  men  of  our  period 
who  are  too  old  to  serve  in  the  trenches  of  France  to  do  all  in 
our  power  to  aid  the  United  States  in  bringing  this  terrible  con- 
flict to  an  honorable  and  glorious  victory  for  civilization  over 
barbarism.  Some  of  us  already  have  sons  or  other  relatives  in 
France.  Some  of  our  boys  have  made  the  supreme  sacrifice  to 
make  right  greater  than  might.  Now  what  we  at  home  are  doing 
is  buying  Liberty  Bonds,  giving  to  the  Red  Cross,  and  doing 
business  in  almost  the  same  way.  During  the  last  four  or  five 
months  I  think  we  all  have  realized  more  keenly  that  the  winning 
of  this  war  is  a  job  where  each  and  every  single  one  of  us  has  his 
own  part  to  play,  and  not  as  an  individual  but  as  a  member  of 
the  United  States.  It  is  team  play  that  counts.  This  is  a  war 
of  nations,  not  only  of  armies.  I  heard  the  French  High  Com- 
missioner say  only  last  week  that  early  last  summer  the  French 
nation  was  discouraged  and  dispirited  and  when  our  first  troops 
under  General  Pershing  arrived  in  France  a  new  spirit  of 
courage  came  to  the  French  people,  not  from  the  fact  that  a  few 
battalions  of  our  soldiers  were  on  French  soil,  but  that  the  great 
American  nation  was  coming  to  their  aid.  So  that  we  must  back 
up  our  soldiers  in  every  way  possible;  we  must  not  criticise  the 
government  just  for  the  sake  of  criticism,  but  must  always  be 
on  our  guard  against  propaganda  not  only  German  but  Bol- 
sheviki, — and  it  is  very  widespread  and  most  insidious.  There- 
fore I  ask  that  we  all  stand  and  drink  a  toast  to  the  President  and 
pledge  our  renewed  support. 

(Toast  drunk  to  the  President  of  the  United  States.) 
The  Toastmaster:  I  doubt  very  much  if  any  of  you  gentlemen 
realize  as  I  do  the  value  of  membership  in  '93.  When  this  war 
broke  out  I  was  in  Scandinavia  and  I  spent  about  three  weeks 
in  getting  over  to  Bergen,  and  I  spent  about  a  week  waiting  until 
I  could  get  on  a  little  boat  to  sail  back  to  England.  The  boat 
was  to  sail  at  two  o'clock  on  Saturday  afternoon.  At  four  o'clock 
on  Friday  afternoon,  the  day  before,  a  notice  was  posted  in  the 
British  Consulate  in  Bergen  that  nobody  but  British  subjects 


34  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


would  be  permitted  to  land  in  England.  I  then  went  down  to 
see  how  I  could  get  back  to  America.  I  found  that  all  the 
steerage  was  engaged  through  April,  and  I  had  visions  of  spend- 
ing the  winter  in  Norway.  About  half  past  four  I  thought  the 
matter  over  and  I  sent  a  cablegram  to  our  friend  Laughlin  who 
was  counsellor  of  the  embassy  in  London.  I  told  him  my  posi- 
tion, that  I  was  there  with  my  family  and  asked  his  assistance. 
Next  morning  before  I  got  up  I  got  a  cablegram  in  reply  telling 
me  that  the  whole  matter  had  been  arranged  and  all  I  had  to 
do  was  to  go  to  the  English  consul  and  get  a  pass.  And,  gentle- 
men, I  never  realized  the  value  of  my  membership  in  '93  as  I 
did  that  day.  Here  is  a  toast  to  Mr.  Laughlin, — drink  it  deep — 
from  every  member  of  the  Class.  (Toast  drunk.)  We  shall 
now  hear  from  Dr.  Lambert. 

Dr.  Lambert:  Mr.  President  and  gentlemen :  It  is  very  kind 
of  the  toastmaster  to  give  me  carte  blanche  on  a  subject,  and  I 
have  jotted  here  a  good  many  notes,  as  the  various  speakers 
have  spoken.  I  was  not  here  last  evening  when  there  was  a 
vigorous,  spirited  and  warm  discussion  on  vivisection.  I  regret 
that  I  couldn't  join  Roby  in  that  talk,  to  be  shoulder  to  shoulder 
in  the  crusade.  To  me  it  has  always  seemed,  I  am  afraid,  that 
the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  is  a  time  when  one  is  apt  to  be 
reminiscent,  and  apt  to  look  back  and  wonder  where  he  has 
stood  all  these  years,  and  where  he  stood  during  college.  And 
of  course  here  is  the  ever  present  and  compelling  influence  of 
religion  which  comes  forward  when  you  grow  older,  and  you 
wonder  if  after  all  your  stand  has  been  just  where  it  should  have 
been.  And  brother — I  use  the  term  because  it  seems  to  be 
indigenous  with  Connecticut  and  I  have  personally  certain  marital 
relations  with  Connecticut  which  I  can't  throw  off.  Brother 
Goodenough, — everybody  is  brother  when  you  speak  in  Connect- 
icut. Once  in  Bridgeport  I  testified  as  an  expert  in  a  contest  at 
law  and  the  two  lawyers  were  damning  one  another  up  hill,  and 
they  always  spoke  of  one  another  as  brother  so-and-so.  So  I 
should  say  brother  Goodenough  brings  up  the  subject  of  religion, 
and  during  college  I  cannot  say  that  I  frequented  Dwight  Hall 
as  often  as  possibly  brother  Yates  or  others;  but  my  earliest 
introduction  to  religion  was  through  the  classics  and  it  may  be — 
it  never  occurred  to  me  before  to-night — that  possibly  that  was 
what  had  led  me  into  the  subject  in  which  I  finally  found  my 
bent.  My  earliest  introduction,  I  think,  to  religion  where  it  was 
a  serious  matter  was  in  the  works  of  Homer;    and  the  priest, 


TWENTY-FIFTH  REUNION  35 

as  brother  Goodenough  undoubtedly  does  each  fall,  examined  the 
entrails  of  various  animals  brought  in  with  hecatombs  and 
otherwise.  To  me  I  confess  it  is  an  everyday  occurrence  to  go 
over  organs  of  the  human  being  to  find  out  what  is  or  is  not 
correct  in  the  twists  and  turns  of  the  intestines.  I  never  looked 
upon  it  as  a  religion  before  but  that  may  have  been  the  earliest 
awakening  in  me. 

Now  I  think  every  one  of  us,  although  we  may  seem  light- 
hearted  and  more  or  less  jovial,  depending  upon  the  amount  of 
alcohol  we  have  imbibed,  turns  to  the  war  eventually  as  a  thing 
which  overhangs  us  all,  as  a  thing  marked — 

A  Member:  All  except  the  preachers. 

Dr.  Lambert:  Well  even  they,  I  think,  realize  that  it  brings 
grist  to  their  mill.  And  the  doctors  have  had  a  fairly  serious 
problem  ahead  of  them  in  this  war,  and  it  has  been  a  pretty  hard 
problem,  to  decide  as  to  just  what  each  one  should  do.  With 
the  laymen  it  has  been  pretty  much  a  matter  of  age  as  to  whether 
they  should  or  should  not  go.  It  takes  a  certain  amount  of  energy 
and  vim  to  become  a  soldier,  but  with  a  doctor  it  apparently 
takes  more  or  less  judgment  and  age  only  apparently  adds  to  his 
usefulness.  The  older  in  years,  the  further  back  he  can  get 
from  the  real  danger  line,  and  his  usefulness  increases.  But  it 
has  been  my  lot  to  be  in  that  group  of  men  who  have  stayed 
behind  and  kept  out  of  uniform  to  provide  what  seemed  to  be 
more  or  less  of  a  useful  service.  And  with  this  war  I  don't 
know  that  you  realize  the  importance  and  the  tremendous  posi- 
tion that  the  medical  profession  has  played  and  will  play  in  the 
winning  of  it.  They  have  been  in  this  country,  at  least,  in  the 
position  of  providing  a  necessary  branch  of  the  service  which 
was  all  too  ill-adapted  for  the  work  thrown  upon  it.  The  medical 
schools  of  the  country  have  been  more  or  less  lax  in  providing 
the  necessary  education  to  equip  men  to  carry  on  the  work  which 
this  war  really  called  for.  And  the  army  found  itself  suddenly 
faced  with  a  situation  where  they  didn't  have  to  increase  tenfold 
or  a  hundredfold  but  really  a  thousand  fold,  and  many  thousand 
fold,  in  their  medical  organization  of  real  doctors,  and  at  the 
same  time  provide  for  the  lay  people  at  home  an  adequate  supply 
of  physicians.  And  the  medical  schools  were  taxed  very  hard 
to  undertake  to  provide  the  personnel  to  equip  such  an  army. 
And  I  personally  have  been  rather  mixed  up  in  the  organizing 
and  equipping  of  the  younger  men  of  the  army  and  of  the  nation 
to  go  forward  with  the  troops,  and  it  has  always  seemed  to  me 


36  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


a  little  bit  of  a  slacker's  job.  It  seems  very  easy  to  educate  a 
man  or  ten  men  or  a  hundred  men,  but  it  has  always  seemed 
to  me  pretty  difficult  when  there  were  actually  people  in  Europe 
who  needed  the  care  of  the  expert,  and  I  think  anyone  of  forty- 
five  could  qualify  as  an  expert,  to  stay  back  and  still  feel  that 
he  was  doing  something  worth  while  in  providing  the  youth  of 
the  land  with  the  knowledge  to  go  in  his  place.  You  know  the 
character  of  the  education  and  the  preparation  of  a  doctor  is  a 
very,  very  special  thing.  I  have  been  in  this  educating  business 
now  for  twenty  years  and  from  that  experience  I  think  the  edu- 
cation of  a  doctor  is  very  much  like  that  story  of  the  man  who 
had  a  horse  to  sell,  where  the  two  men  were  driving  a  pretty  close 
bargain,  and  the  man  who  had  the  horse  to  sell  said  "I  know 
two  things  about  the  horse  and  I'll  tell  you  one  of  them  before 
you  pay  me  the  money  and  I'll  tell  you  the  other  one  after  you 
pay  me  the  money."  The  man  said  "Well,  all  right;  what's 
the  first  one?"  He  said  "The  first  thing  is  that  the  horse  is 
hard  to  catch  in  a  ten-acre  lot."  The  man  said  "Well,  that's  all 
right.  I  am  not  going  to  keep  him  in  a  ten-acre  lot ;  I  am  going 
to  keep  him  in  a  barn.  Here  is  your  money,"  and  he  paid  the 
money;  and  said  "Now  what's  the  thing  afterwards?"  He  said 
"Well,  after  you  have  caught  him  he  ain't  worth  a  damn." 

Now  that's  a  good  deal  like  the  doctor.  You  educate  a  good 
many  of  these  men  and  after  you  have  got  them  educated  they 
are  not  really  what  you  call  doctors.  And  it  is  rather  discouraging 
work. 

Out  in  Chicago  last  week  they  had  a  meeting  which  I  attended 
and  they  proposed  a  plan  which  we  have  been  working  on  since 
the  war  began,  which  I  think  is  going  to  help  considerably  because 
at  the  present  time  there  is  a  dearth  of  doctors,  and  as  I  look 
forward  to  it  there  is  bound  to  be  a  dearth  of  doctors ;  you  can't 
educate  doctors  with  five  years'  preparation  to  take  the  place 
of  the  doctors  that  will  be  destroyed  in  the  next  year.  And  the 
plan  is  to  put  into  the  service  every  boy  who  is  eighteen  or  over 
and  to  make  of  them  a  corps,  a  students'  training  corps,  and  to 
get  them  all  to  enlist  and  to  make  their  educators  the  officers 
of  that  corps.    And  then  to  find  out  what  each  boy  is  good  for. 

I  can  remember  in  college,  and  before  that,  many  of  us,  at  the 
age  of  eighteen  did  not  have  any  purpose,  any  definite  purpose, 
in  life  and  it  seems  to  me  as  I  look  at  it  that  the  men  about  our 
age  should  give  the  boys  of  eighteen  and  over  a  definite  purpose 
in  life;    and  it  seems  to  me  the  purpose  is  to  win  the  war.     If 


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there  is  anyone  who  is  fit  to  study  medicine  or  wants  to  study 
medicine  I  think  he  should  be  encouraged  to  do  so,  and  I  think 
he  ought  to  be  discouraged  from  going  into  the  trenches.  Eng- 
land and  France  let  them  go  into  the  trenches,  and  in  consequence 
of  that  we  have  been  in  the  past  year  supplying  two  hundred 
doctors  a  month  to  England  and  France,  and  they  are  stripped 
of  doctors  and  their  civilian  population  have  no  one  to  take 
care  of  them,  and  their  army  is  bereft  of  what  they  ought  to  have. 
I  think  we  ought  to  encourage  men  and  boys  to  stay  at  home 
and  prepare  for  what  I  believe  will  be  a  long  and  serious  struggle ; 
and  I  don't  believe  even  if  it  is  a  short  one,  that  it  is  going  to 
be  a  bad  thing  to  have  given  the  advice  to  seriously  take  up  the 
work  of  life  where  you  are.  I  think  this  rushing  abroad  to  do 
something  which  appeals  to  us  ; — everyone  here  wants  to  go  ;  there 
isn't  a  man  in  the  room  that  wouldn't  leave  to-night  and  go  to 
France — but  the  question  is  can  you  do  more  there  or  can  you 
do  more  here?  And  the  youth — he  is  the  hard  one  to  keep  here. 
I  have  seen  it  in  the  medical  school  and  I  have  seen  it  in  the 
hospitals,  and  it  is  hard  to  keep  them  with  their  feet  on  the 
ground,  it  is  hard  to  keep  them  and  prepare  them  intellectually 
to  do  something  which  with  three  months',  six  months',  or  a  year's 
training  will  be  not  100%  but  1,000%  more  useful.  I  think 
that  we  here  at  the  age  of  forty-five  to  fifty  are  a  group  of  men 
who  can  steady  the  youth,  the  eighteen  to  twenty-one,  the  group 
that  is  going  to  be  hard  to  hold.  There  are  plenty  of  men  to 
go  between  twenty-one  and  thirty-one.  I  have  been  in  New 
York  examining  the  draft  and  they  are  all  glad  to  go ;  they 
are  all  trying  to  circumvent  that  doctor  who  finds  something  the 
matter  with  them.  They  have  plenty  of  soldiers.  But  the  need  is 
for  the  intellectual  boy  who,  if  there  were  no  war,  would  settle 
down  to  an  occupation  which  in  two  or  three  years  would  really 
mean  something  toward  winning  the  war.  Europe  is  suffering 
to-day  from  the  fact  that  they  let  everybody  go  who  wanted  to 
go,  and  they  had  no  restraining  influence  of  the  sober  judgment 
of  the  middle-aged, — and  that  is  us. 

Now  it  seems  to  me  that  we  have  reached  the  age  when  we 
cannot  very  well  go,  and  I  think  the  evidence  of  it  is  the  number 
of  men  here,  who  yet  have  the  youthful  feelings  and  enthusiasms 
and  desire  to  go.  And  down  in  our  hearts  every  one  of  us 
have  all  squared  it  unquestionably  with  our  conscience,  with  our 
families,  with  our  physicians — but  a  little  bit,  I  guess,  we  would 
all  like  to  be  there.     I  don't  want  to  make  us  sorry  for  ourselves 


38  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

because  I  don't  think  we  need  any  pity,  but  I  think  our  job  is 
to  steady  the  crowd  of  the  unthinking,  untutored,  irresponsible 
youth,  who  would  rush  in  when  their  intellects,  when  their 
capabilities,  should  be  husbanded  for  something  which  eventually, 
and  I  think  it  will  be  some  time,  would  win  the  war.     (Applause.) 

(Amici  sung  by  the  Class.) 

Henry  Barnes:  I  was  asked  to  read  a  letter  from  George 
Spalding.  He  is  down  in  Miami,  Florida,  and  he  says  he  cannot 
leave  until  June  30th.  "We  are  at  the  center  of  three  aviation 
camps,  and  by  October  1st  there  will  be  10,000  aviators  around 
Miami.  We  have  a  social  every  Sunday  evening  for  the  men  in 
uniform.  I  did  expect  to  leave  in  time  for  the  Class  reunion, 
but  I  have  sent  word  that  I  can't  make  it." 

Dr.  Lambert:  Gentlemen,  I  hate  to  interrupt  again,  but  I 
wasn't  here  last  night.  I  understand  that  last  night  there  was 
a  most  serious  meeting;  and  in  order  not  to  add  to  the  serious- 
ness again  I  have  here  a  few  pages  of  resolutions  which  were 
signed  by  numerous  members  of  the  Class  and  opposite  their 
names  are  very  large  contributions  for  this  worthy  object. 
Although  I  realize  the  nature  of  the  meeting  I  would  rather  like 
to  read  the  set  of  resolutions,  if  I  might,  and  before  reading  them, 
in  order  to  draw  the  respect  and  the  attention  of  the  Class  to 
it  I  would  like  to  call  attention  to  the  list  of  worthies  and  the 
munificent  contributions  which  they  have  placed  opposite  their 
names.  Mr.  E.  M.  Williams,  by  compulsion,  has  put  down  $100. 
A.  V.  S.  Lambert,  myself,  felt  I  could  contribute  $10, — freely. 
Chisholm  put  down  $100,  Harvey  put  down  $100,  Logan  Hay 
put  down  $100,  Billy  Smith  put  down  $1,000,  Ficken  put  down 
$1,000,  Jepson  put  down  $100,  Skee  Harmstad  put  down  a  nickel. 
It  begins  'Whereas  at  Yale  University  during  the  years  1889  to 
1893  Professor  Harmstad,  being  known  by  his  friends  as  'Skee/ 
conducted  a  course  in  Tips  to  the  great  financial  advantage  of  his 
pupils,  and,  Whereas  after  the  year  1893  his  course  in  Tips  was 
discontinued,  to  the  great  detriment  of  Yale  University,  and 
Whereas  in  the  opinion  of  the  undersigned  his  course  in  Tips 
should  be  reestablished  at  Yale  University  and  the  course 
endowed,  to  be  known  as  the  Harmstad  Chair,  and  be  filled  by 
Professor  Harmstad."  I  ask  the  attention  and  the  vote  of  the 
Class. 

Harmstad:  "Whereas"  Holbrook  shot  his  bolt  last  evening. 
I  don't  think  it  is  necessary  for  anybody  to  apologize  for  those 
resolutions.    There  is  a  gentleman  in  the  Class  of  '93  who  is  not 


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present  this  evening,  but  if  anyone  profited  by  those  tips  it  is 
my  roommate  Bowns.  I  was  asking  Professor  Holbrook  this 
morning  in  the  Taft  why  it  was  when  he  got  up  such  a  wonder- 
ful set  of  resolutions  on  Roby's  scheme  to  stop  that  periodical 
he  should  apologize;  and  he  said  "I  wasn't  apologizing."  "I 
thought  that  was  it,"  I  said ;  "Why  should  you  do  it  ?"  He  said 
"I  thought  Roby  was  serious." 

Mr.  Goodenough:  I  rise  to  a  point  of  explanation.  Those  reso- 
lutions are  obscure  on  one  point;  where  shall  we  tip  brother 
Harmstad?  I  understand  it  is  municipal  water  out  here  and  it 
might  be  polluted. 

A  Member:  I  should  like  to  inquire  whether  he  has  as  yet 
broken  cover. 

Roby:  I  don't  think  it  was  Skee's  tips  which  made  Bowns  rich. 
It  was  his  ability  to  hold  four  aces. 

The  Toastmaster:  I  should  like  to  hear  a  few  words  from 
Mr.  Mathison  before  we  break  up  this  evening.  I  present 
Mr.  Mathison  to  the  Class. 

Mr.  Mathison:  I  really  don't  know  what  to  do  to-night.  I  have 
been  interested  and  edified  by  the  theology  of  Goodenough,  by  the 
medicine  of  Lambert,  and  by  the  sage  remarks  of  others.  We 
are  in  a  time  of  seriousness,  and  a  time  in  which  every  man  must 
do  his  bit,  and  that  bit  must  be  his  best.  Sometimes,  I  am  sure, 
to  each  of  us  who  are  veterans, — because  it  has  been  humiliating 
to  find  that  we  can't  even  come  in  second  in  the  race  with 
heavyweights,  and  find  that  our  task  is  a  task  of  words,  not 
deeds, — the  responsibility  is  large  upon  us,  in  the  ministry  espe- 
cially, to  stimulate  loyalty  and  at  the  same  time  hold  their  enthu- 
siasm to  sober  balance ;  to  temper  the  enthusiasm  of  youth  with 
the  judgment  of  maturity,  and  to  so  balance  and  bring  all  things 
together  that  our  land  may  go  forth  into  this  conflict  and  come 
out  of  it  with  credit.  Such  is  the  task  of  the  parson,  perhaps 
almost  preeminently,  and  such  is  the  task  in  the  way  of  every 
person ;  because  I  have  used  the  word  parson  just  now  in  a 
discriminating  way,  it  means  really  the  person  and  we  are  all 
persons.  We  are  men  of  education  and  balance,  men  of  influence, 
usefulness,  and  men  to  whom  those  associated  with  us  can  look 
for  discriminating  unbiased  judgment,  for  the  exercise  of  reason, 
for  all  things  which  pertain  to  a  sober  and  sound  citizenship. 
There  was  never  a  time  in  the  history  of  the  world  when  all  of 
these  things  were  needed  in  more  distinct  and  workable  form 
than  now.     There  is  no  place  where  the  world  has  a  better  right 


4o 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


"Ball  One  ' 
Too  low  " 


to  look  for  it  than  among  those  who  at  one  time  or  another 
have  come  out  of  our  country's  educational  halls.  And  to  whom 
shall  men  look,  or  be  able  to  look,  with  greater  confidence  than 
to  those  who,  still  in  the  heyday  of  power  and  influence,  with  the 
power  of  analysis  and  judgment  which  should  have  been  the 
chief  endowment  of  an  educational  advantage,  tempered  and 
seasoned  by  the  experience  of  a  quarter  of  a  century,  should  be 

able  to  stand  as  the  teachers  and  like- 
wise the  interpreters  of  youth  and  age 
in  our  country's  needs.  The  questions 
that  come  before  us  are  many  and  per- 
plexing. The  opportunities  that  reach 
our  hands  for  aid  and  for  counsel  are 
manifold  and  various,  and  there  is  no 
one  of  us  I  am  sure  that  more  often 
has  laid  his  head  upon  the  pillow  in 
perplexity  and  with  the  weight  of  re- 
sponsibility for  those  who  are  around 
him  and  who  look  to  him  as  preacher, 
parish  priest  and  friend  to  advise  them 
under  claims  of  peculiar  kind  and 
force  than  has  the  minister  of  the 
gospel  when  in  the  full  enjoyment  of 
his  parochial  charge,  and  in  the  exer- 
cise of  his  prophetic  gifts.  I  am  sure 
that  there  has  been  nothing  that  has  proven  more  grateful  to  us  in 
the  sacred  ministry  than  the  way  in  which  the  government  has 
looked  to  us  for  utterance  upon  the  various  subjects  that  have 
come  uppermost  as  elements  of  special  difficulty  or  claim  in  our 
country's  needs.  The  ministers  of  the  gospel  have  oftentimes  been 
called  upon  both  formally  and  informally,  through  the  Council 
of  Defense,  through  the  appeals  of  the  Governors  of  our  several 
states,  through  the  cautionings  and  the  requests  of  our  bishops 
or  others  who  stand  in  a  position  of  supervision  over  us  in  our 
several  churches.  Let  me  repeat  that  there  has  never  been  a  time 
when  we  have  felt  the  weight  of  our  responsibilities  and  like- 
wise the  joy  and  satisfaction  of  a  service  which  seemed  to  us 
to  be  really  not  only  worth  while  to  ourselves  but  appreciated  by 
those  who  sometimes  perhaps  in  our  times  of  loneliness  and  dis- 
couragement we  have  felt  had  forgotten  us.  And  in  this  war 
this  is  our  especial  part  and  it  is  a  part  which  I  think  that  every 
Yale  man  ought  to  share,  and  which  I  think  the  training  of  Yale, 


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which  has  been  from  the  very  beginning  in  the  interest  markedly 
of  Church  and  State,  has  impressed  upon  us.  I  believe  that  it 
is  one  of  the  things  which  make  us  proud  to  be  Yale  men  and 
which  make  us  appreciated  in  this  land  and  time. 

I  had  no  thought  of  being  called  upon  at  this  time,  Mr.  Toast- 
master.  It  is  a  joy  to  me  to  see  that,  upon  occasions  such  as  this, 
words  of  sobriety  and  sound  wisdom  command  the  silence  and 
respectful  attention  of  you  who  are  assembled  even  more  than 
jokes  and  jibes  with  which  in  earlier  days  we  all  were  wont  to 
endeavor,  with  varying  measures  of  failure  and  success,  to  enter- 
tain the  Class.  We  have  come  into  a  time  when  you  listen  with 
very  much  more  of  evident  and  silent  satisfaction  to  words  of 
earnestness  and  sense  than  to  even  the  lighter  and  pleasanter 
utterances  which  entertain.     (Applause.) 

(Song:   "Here's  to '93 ;   Drink  it  Down") 

The  Toastmaster:  Gentlemen,  the  trolley  car  leaves  in  eight 
minutes. 

On  Tuesday  morning  the  Class  attended  the  general  Alumni 
meeting  held  at  10:30  in  the  Albert  Arnold  Sprague  Memorial 
Hall,  the  new  building  of  the  School  of  Music  which  stands  on 
the  site  of  the  residence  occupied  in  our  day  in  college  by  Presi- 
dent Dwight. 

Carter,  '78,  presided.  President  Hadley  was  the  first  speaker. 
He  said,  in  part : 

You  have  come  back  to  see  Yale  under  War  conditions.  Last  Com- 
mencement was  from  beginning  to  end  a  War  Commencement,  but  every 
word  and  every  thought  was  one  of  preparation  for  what  was  before  us. 
Today  we  have  to  speak,  not  of  preparation  but  of  accomplishment.  A 
year  ago  the  Campus  was  full  of  students  in  uniform,  getting  ready  to  go 
into  actual  service.  Today  it  is  empty,  for  the  students  have  gone.  A 
year  ago  we  talked  of  what  our  professors  could  do,  at  home  or  abroad, 
in  their  country's  service.  Today  they  are  doing  these  things,  in  France 
or  in  England,  in  Washington  or  in  New  Haven.  A  year  ago  we  spoke 
of  the  expected  deficit  and  the  possibilities  of  meeting  it.  Today,  thanks 
to  the  Alumni  Fund,  the  deficit  for  the  current  year  is  met,  and  Yale's 
first  battle  of  the  war  won. 

On  financial  matters  I  shall  speak  in  detail  at  the  Alumni  Luncheon 
tomorrow.  Today  I  want  to  talk  of  the  life  and  work  of  Yale  University 
and  its  several  departments,  as  they  are  affected  by  the  war. 

The  problem  of  managing  a  university  in  War-time  in  such  a  way  as 
to  keep  up  the  traditions  and  the  inspiration  of  the  place  seems  at  first 
sight  a  hard  one.  We  have  fewer  teachers  to  work  with,  and  those  that 
are  called  away  are  apt  to  be  the  strongest.  Calls  for  the  services  of  our 
Faculty  come  from  every  quarter.  The  Director  of  the  Scientific  School 
is  America's  leading  representative  on  the  International  Food  Commission. 


42  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

The  senior  Professor  of  Physics  in  the  College  supervises  the  scientific 
communication  between  America  and  Europe.  The  Professor  of  Surgery 
in  the  Medical  School  is  at  the  front  in  France,  in  charge  of  the  pioneer 
Mobile  Hospital  of  the  type  accepted  by  the  United  States  Government. 
Scores  of  other  members  of  the  Faculty  are  in  positions  less  conspicuous 
but  not  less  important  in  the  public  service.  This  outside  activity  is  not 
confined  to  the  representatives  of  natural  and  physical  science.  Modern 
war  is  so  vast  and  so  complex  a  thing  that  it  enlists  the  services  of  teachers 
of  every  type — mathematicians  and  linguists,  professors  of  history  and 
professors  of  religion. 

There  has  been  a  corresponding  loss  in  the  student  body — a  loss  of  forty 
per  cent  of  our  numbers,  and  of  much  more  than  forty  per  cent  of  our 
leaders.  Our  Senior  Class  has  been  reduced  to  less  than  one-third  of  its 
normal  size.  The  men  who  have  remained  have  been  as  patriotic  and 
public-spirited  as  any  one,  but  they  have  been  for  the  most  part  relatively 
young  or  physically  disqualified  for  active  service.  The  older  athletes  and 
organizers,  of  whom  the  Freshmen  in  former  years  made  heroes,  have 
gone  into  the  ranks ;  and  even  had  they  remained  at  home,  the  means 
through  which  they  worked  are  largely  disorganized.  Athletics,  round 
which  so  much  of  college  interest  rallied  and  which,  in  spite  of  abuses,  was 
the  most  powerful  agency  at  our  command  for  keeping  up  standards  of 
student  morality,  has  dropped  into  a  secondary  place.  As  we  looked 
forward  to  the  current  academic  year,  the  loss  of  men  seemed  less 
threatening  than  the  loss  of  the  old-time  college  spirit. 

But  we  have  been  able  to  overcome  this  danger.  The  War  has  thus  far 
proved  on  the  whole  a  source  of  strength  rather  than  weakness  to  the 
college. 

We  have  always  spoken  of  Yale  as  a  place  devoted  to  public  service. 
We  have  tried  to  make  public  service  the  distinctive  idea  and  purpose  of 
Yale  education.  Now  for  the  first  time  we  have  been  able  to  give  this 
word  "public  service"  a  concrete  meaning  which  the  students  understand. 
The  uniform  of  the  army  or  navy  which  they  wear  is  a  visible  symbol  of 
the  purpose  for  which  they  come.  The  Yale  student  of  today  is  no  longer 
here  to  have  a  good  time.  He  is  here  to  prepare  himself  for  something — 
army,  navy,  engineers ;  or  if  disqualified  from  all  these,  for  helping  to  win 
the  war  at  home.  This  gives  to  academic  study  the  zeal  and  spirit  which 
was  formerly  reserved  for  professional  study.  Trigonometry  has  a  new 
meaning  when  it  serves  as  a  basis  for  practical  work  in  navigation  or  for 
firing  data.  Many  a  man  who  is  unable  to  appreciate  mathematics  for  its 
own  sake  becomes  surprisingly  proficient  when  he  finds  that  it  will  enable 
him  to  hit  his  enemy  at  three  miles  distance.  What  is  true  of  mathematics 
is  true  of  French  and  is  true  of  history.  Each  study  gains  new  life  when 
it  prepares  a  man  to  take  part  in  war  problems. 

Not  only  do  the  students  feel  that  they  are  engaged  in  a  work  of  prep- 
aration ;  they  have  gone  far  enough  to  see  that  they  have  accomplished 
something.  They  no  longer  have  to  take  the  word  of  their  instructors  that 
the  curriculum  of  the  Yale  Field  Artillery  School,  or  the  somewhat  more 
elastic  course  of  the  Yale  Naval  Training  Unit,  will  prepare  them  for  ser- 
vice. They  have  visible  signs  before  them  that  it  does  prepare  them. 
Seventy  line  commissions  in  the  navy  out  of  seventy-one  men  sent  up  by 


TWENTY-FIFTH  REUNION  43 

Yale  is  a  visible  and  tangible  object  lesson  to  those  who  stay  at  home  as 
to  the  direct  connection  between  what  they  do  here  and  what  they  will  be 
able  to  do  afterward.  The  readiness  of  the  Government  to  take  all  our 
artillerists,  of  every  age,  into  Government  camps  is  perhaps  an  even  clearer 
object  lesson;  because  it  comes  directly  home  to  each  boy,  whether  he  is 
of  draft  age  or  not,  and  shows  him  that  the  Government  needs  men  who 
understand  trigonometry  even  more  than  men  who  know  the  manual  of 
arms. 

In  the  opening  of  the  year  our  artillery  work  faced  many  discourage- 
ments. It  seemed  as  if  the  Government  did  not  appreciate  what  we  were 
doing.  It  would  promise  nothing  to  our  students  in  the  way  of  recog- 
nition— not  even  the  amount  which  was  accorded  to  other  colleges  whose 
military  courses  were  organized  on  older  lines.  Then  it  was  that  Colonel 
Danford,  that  leader  to  whom  Yale  owes  both  professional  guidance  and 
moral  inspiration,  came  back  and  said  to  the  boys,  in  the  way  that  only 
Colonel  Danford  could  say  it:  "It  does  not  matter  what  recognition  is 
promised,  so  much  as  what  you  can  do.  It  is  of  little  consequence  to  be 
promised  a  commission ;  it  is  of  overwhelming  consequence  to  be  fit 
for  a  commission."  The  boys  held  to  their  work,  not  on  the  basis  of 
assurances  from  the  Government,  but  on  the  firmer  basis  of  assurance 
that,  if  you  could  do  a  thing  the  country  needed,  you  would  be  given  the 
opportunity  to  do  it.  This  is  faith ;  and  this  faith,  as  the  year  went  on  and 
the  need  of  training  field  artillerists  became  increasingly  manifest,  has  been 
increasingly  rewarded. 

Of  the  matters  which  form  the  ordinary  theme  of  an  address  to  the 
alumni  there  is  little  to  say.  Our  larger  building  plans  in  connection  with 
the  Harkness  Quadrangle  or  the  new  Peabody  Museum  have  been  brought 
to  a  standstill  by  the  war.  There  has  been  little  done  in  the  way  of 
development  of  new  lines  of  instruction  except  in  connection  with  military 
science.  Instead  of  expanding,  we  have  readjusted  to  meet  war  conditions. 
But  this  readjustment  has  been  carried  on  in  ways  which  are  full  of 
promise  for  Yale's  future. 

In  the  first  place,  the  individual  members  of  the  faculty  have  shown  a 
patriotic  readiness  to  teach  things  that  were  needed.  Any  man  who  knew 
French  took  his  share  in  teaching  French,  whether  French  was  his  depart- 
ment or  not.  Any  man  who  knew  navigation  took  his  share  in  teaching 
navigation,  whether  navigation  was  his  department  or  not.  In  fact  the 
instruction  in  navigation  was  largely  given  by  professors  of  Latin.  I 
think  that  in  these  shifts  the  quality  of  our  teaching  gained  rather  than 
lost.  It  gained  in  vitality;  and  vitality  is  what  college  teaching  needs. 
As  showing  how  boys  appreciate  that  kind  of  instruction,  it  is  an  inter- 
esting fact  that  members  of  the  Yale  Naval  Training  Unit  have  generally 
elected  Latin  subjects  to  occupy  whatever  free  time  the  naval  course  of 
study  left  them.  I  hope  and  believe  that  this  will  be  symbolical  of  what 
is  to  happen  to  our  courses  of  study  after  the  war ;  that  the  professors 
who  are  now  teaching  new  subjects  to  meet  an  immediate  and  urgent 
need  will  be  rewarded  by  the  desire  of  the  students  to  go  back  to  the  old 
subjects  when  the  war  is  over. 


44  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

This  brings  me  to  the  last  point  on  which  I  want  to  touch  this  morning : 
our  policy  regarding  academic  credit  and  degrees  for  those  who  have 
entered  war  service. 

Every  member  of  the  Class  of  1918  who  left  college  to  go  into  the  army 
or  navy  has  his  name  printed  on  the  Commencement  programme  as 
absent  in  the  service  of  his  country.  Every  such  man  who  has  completed 
his  Junior  year  in  the  College,  or  the  first  half  of  his  Senior  year  in  the 
Scientific  School,  can  present  himself  at  any  subsequent  Commencement 
to  receive  his  degree  and  be  enrolled  in  his  class,  either  on  the  basis  of  one 
half  year's  work  here  or  on  the  basis  of  a  military  record  which  he  can 
present  as  his  intellectual  equivalent.  In  the  former  case  he  will  receive 
the  regular  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  or  Bachelor  of  Philosophy;  in 
the  latter  case  he  will  receive  the  degree  honoris  causa.  Any  such  man 
who  has  died  in  the  service  will  receive  the  degree  honoris  causa  at  the 
Commencement  next  following. 

Yale's  position  in  this  matter  is  intermediate  between  two  extreme 
views.  On  the  one  hand  there  are  men  like  President  Lowell  of  Harvard, 
who  say  that  the  Bachelor's  degree  should  not  be  given  for  military  ser- 
vice at  all ;  that  it  is  not  a  reward  or  recognition  of  loyalty,  but  a  cer- 
tificate that  a  man  has  pursued  certain  studies  enumerated  in  the  catalogue. 
At  the  other  extreme  are  those  who  say  that  all  who  go  into  the  army 
should  receive  the  Bachelor's  degree  and  not  be  asked  to  complete  the 
course  at  all.  The  amount  of  criticism  that  we  have  received  from  advo- 
cates of  both  extremes  is  about  equal. 

With  those  who  hold  that  we  should  not  recognize  war  service  at  all  I 
have  no  sympathy.  With  those  who  say  that  we  ought  to  give  a  degree 
to  every  1918  man  who  entered  the  army,  as  Columbia  did,  I  have  a  great 
deal  of  sympathy ;  but  I  think  that  they  are  wrong.  A  degree  is  not 
primarily  a  reward  of  loyalty.  It  is  a  certificate  that  a  man  has  done 
certain  things  and  can  do  certain  things ;  that  the  medical  school  or  law 
school  which  receives  him  can  count  on  his  having  certain  elements  of 
preliminary  education.  To  give  every  one  who  goes  into  the  army  a  degree 
because  we  admire  his  loyalty  and  self-sacrifice  is  to  cheapen  our  degree 
in  his  eyes  and  those  of  the  public.  To  defer  giving  it  until  the  military 
record  can  be  examined  in  detail  and  the  intellectual  quality  of  the  service 
rendered  be  verified  may  result  in  depriving  some  men  of  a  document 
they  would  be  glad  to  have  today,  but  it  gives  them  and  their  fellows  the 
opportunity  of  securing  a  more  significant  document  a  year  or  two  years 
hence.  It  encourages  them  to  value  their  academic  education  and  to 
complete  it  if  possible. 

The  college  that  gives  degrees  today  to  every  boy  who  has  entered  the 
service,  early  or  late,  as  officer  or  private,  with  his  parents'  approval  or 
without  it,  in  effect  says  to  that  boy:  "There  is  no  use  of  your  coming 
back ;  we  have  given  you  the  degree."  The  college  which  defers  giving  it, 
and  gives  it  only  on  the  basis  of  meritorious  service  rendered,  says  :  "Our 
degree  is  valuable;  come  back  and  get  it  if  you  can.  If  you  cannot  we 
will  accept  absent  work  instead  of  present  work."  How  many  will  come 
back  we  do  not  know.  It  will  largely  depend  upon  the  length  of  the  war. 
I  believe  that  the  system  which  we  have  adopted  will  encourage  as  large 
a  number  to  come  back  as  possible;    that  the  presence  of  such  men  here 


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45 


on  the  ground  after  the  war  will  be  an  unequalled  stimulus  for  helping 
Yale  to  build  up  anew  the  old  traditions  and  the  old  habits  and  the  old 
hero  worship  on  better  lines  than  ever  before ;  that  these  men  themselves, 
from  their  hard  contact  with  practical  experience,  will  know  how  to  profit 
by  the  opportunities  for  study  which  the  college  affords,  and  will  make  it, 
in  a  better  sense  than  it  ever  was  before,  a  seat  of  learning  and  of 
Christian  culture. 


Fay  was  called  upon  to  represent  '93.     He  said: 

We  have  seen  some  of  the  aspects  of  Class  reunions,  the  association 
with  men  we  knew  were  our  friends,  and  all  that;  but  after  all,  in  this 
reunion   we   have   the   larger   and   more    fundamental    significance   of   the 


46  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

War-time  reunion  before  us.  The  Class  of  '93  debated  a  long  time  whether 
they  were  to  have  a  Class  reunion  or  not.  There  was  a  good  deal  said 
about  essentials  and  non-essentials.  But  I  have  observed  that  the  United 
States  Army  seems  to  think  it  essential  that  their  boys  shall  go  home. 
They  regard  the  home-going  as  essential,  and  as  I  thought  of  that  it  seemed 
to  me  that  we  men  here  might  almost  think  of  the  Class  reunion  in  War- 
time as  an  essential. 

And  why  an  essential?  We  cannot  work  without  faith.  Just  as  the 
army  boy  goes  for  a  taste  of  good  things  at  home  and  looks  around  his 
home  surroundings  to  renew  his  faith,  faith  that  he  does  not  realize,  so 
we  who  have  come  back  to  our  reunions  have  come  back  to  renew  our 
faith.  I  think  every  man  here  has  felt  that  renewal  of  faith,  not  only  for 
the  present  problems  that  must  be  dealt  with,  problems  that  do  not  permit 
of  further  delay,  but  problems  of  the  future  that  all  of  us  must  work  on. 
Faith,  it  seems  to  me,  is  a  matter  of  spirit  in  which  there  is  no  age.  Spirit 
is  immortality,  and  immortality  forbids  thought  of  age.  So  we  are  all 
contemporaries  here  in  this  work  which  we  must  do  back  home.  As  we 
come  back  to  New  Haven  and  see  these  magnificent  young  men  in  khaki 
and  the  Navy  blue  and  white,  with  all  the  beauty  of  youth,  and  that  feel- 
ing of  youth  that  will  not  be  denied  them,  we  may  envy  their  physical 
beauty,  but  we  know  that  down  in  their  hearts  is  the  same  spirit  which 
animates  us  all,  a  spirit  which  will  never  grow  old.  Therefore  it  seems 
to  me  that  in  addition  to  that  privilege  of  seeing  these  young  men  as  they 
stood  there  on  Baccalaureate  Sunday,  receiving  the  benediction  not  only 
of  our  President  but  of  our  college — it  seems  to  me  that  we  ourselves, 
having  renewed  within  ourselves  this  faith,  should  go  forth  from  here  to 
tell  others  to  come  back  next  June  and  the  next  June,  until  not  merely 
this  War  is  finished  but  until  these  immense  problems — just  what  they  are 
we  do  not  know — until  these  problems  seem  more  solved  than  they  are 
now.     That  is  the  duty  of  the  college  man. 

It  came  to  me  as  I  was  thinking  that  the  Class  which  came  back  for  its 
reunion  in  1862,  in  the  second  year  of  the  Civil  War,  was  the  Class  of 
1837.  That  Class  bore  the  same  relation  to  that  reunion  which  ours  bears 
to  this.  It  does  not  make  me  feel  old,  but  it  makes  me  feel  that  all  of  us 
must  gird  ourselves  up  with  this  Yale  spirit,  that  is  essentially  a  spiritual 
proposition,  for  the  work  of  the  next  ten,  fifteen,  or  twenty  years. 

After  the  Alumni  meeting  a  large  number  attended  a  special 
service  in  memory  of  Professor  Henry  Parks  Wright  in  Battell 
Chapel. 

At  12:30  a  brief  song  recital  was  given  at  headquarters  by 
Swayne,  accompanied  by  Jepson. 

Over  eighty  of  the  Class  lunched  at  headquarters,  the  wives 
and  children  present  bringing  the  number  in  attendance  up  to 
one  hundred. 

At  three  o'clock  the  Class  meeting  was  held  at  headquarters. 
The  Secretary  announced  the  death  since  the  last  reunion  of  the 
following  members : 


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JOSEPH  ANDERSON 
FRANCIS  OSWALD  DORSEY 
WILLIAM  WALTER  ECCLES 
THOMAS  AUGUSTUS  GARDINER 
RUFUS  MACQUEEN  GIBBS 
DONALD  CAMERON  HALDEMAN 

The  Secretary  announced  that  there  are  154  survivors  of  the  total 
of  185  graduates  and  that  the  Class  has  285  children;  141  boys 
and  144  girls,  and  one  grandchild,  the  daughter  of  Yates' 
daughter. 

In  lieu  of  a  further  report  the  Secretary  presented  galley  proofs 
of  the  biographical  sketches  in  this  book.  The  Secretary  was 
reelected  to  serve  until  the  next  reunion.  On  nomination  of  Fay, 
seconded  by  Dwight,  the  following  were  elected  a  Committee  to 
manage  the  Thirtieth  Anniversary  Reunion :  Shaw,  chairman, 
Chisholm,  Hackett,  Harmstad,  Spencer. 

A  vote  of  thanks  to  the  retiring  reunion  committee  was  carried 
with  uproarious  unanimity.  The  meeting  then  adjourned  to  the 
steps  of  the  Old  Library  where  the  Class  photograph  was  taken. 
Immediately  after  this  was  over  the  Class  joined  in  a  patriotic 
celebration  by  graduates  and  members  of  the  University.  The 
program  was  as  follows : 

ASSEMBLY  OF  GRADUATES  AND  OF  GRADUATING 
CLASSES  ON  THE  COLLEGE  CAMPUS 

GRADUATE  PROCESSION 

The  procession,  led  by  detachments  from  the  Reserve  Officers'  Training 
Corps  and  the  Yale  Naval  Training  Unit,  with  Professors  Edward  Bliss 
Reed  and  Mather  Abbott  as  Marshals,  will  pass  representative  memorials 
to  Yale  men  who  served  in  previous  wars,  leaving  wreaths  and  a  guard 
of  honor  at  each,  in  the  order  following : 

French  and  Indian  Wars 
Connecticut  Hall.  This  building,  erected  in  1750  from  various  sources, 
including  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  by  the  Colony  of  a  captured  French 
prize,  existed  throughout  the  main  period  of  French  and  Indian  Wars 
(1755-1762),  in  which  General  Phineas  Lyman,  BA.  1738,  General  David 
Wooster,  B.A.   1738,  and  sixty  other  Yale  graduates  saw  service. 

American  Revolution 
Statue  of  Nathan  Hale,  B.A.   1773.     Captain  Hale  is  representative 
of  two  hundred  and  thirty-four  Yale  men — over  one-quarter  of  the  grad- 
uate body  living  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution — who  rendered  service 
in  the  Continental  Army. 


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War  of  1812 

Memorial  of  Peter  Buell  Porter,  B.A.  1791.  General  Porter,  after- 
wards Secretary  of  War,  is  representative  of  about  seventy  graduates  who 
served  in  the  War  of  1812.    s 

Mexican  War 

Memorial  of  Cassius  Marcellus  Clay,  B.A.  1832.  Captain  Clay,  after- 
wards prominent  as  an  Anti-Slavery  leader,  may  be  taken  as  representative 
of  the  small  group  of  Yale  men,  mainly  from  the  South,  who  served  in 
the  Mexican  War. 

Civil  War 

Civil  War  Memorial.  Erected  by  the  graduates  in  1915  in  memory 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty-eight  Yale  men — one  hundred  and  thirteen  on 
the  Union  side  and  fifty-five  on  the  Confederate  side — who  lost  their  lives 
in  the  Civil  War. 

The  procession  will  also  leave  a  wreath  on  Wright  Hall,  erected  by  the 
graduates  in  1912  as  a  memorial  of  Henry  Parks  Wright,  B.A.  1868,  who 
died  March  17,  1918.  Sergeant  Wright  is  representative  of  six  hundred 
and  seven  graduates  and  over  two  hundred  former  students  who  served 
in  the  Union  Army. 

Spanish-American  War 

Flagstaff  in  Memory  of  Augustus  Canfield  Ledyard,  B.A.  1898. 
Lieutenant  Ledyard  was  one  of  seven  Yale  men  who  lost  their  lives  in  the 
Spanish-American  War,  in  which  over  three  hundred,  including  eighty- 
five  students,  served. 


the  university  quadrangle  after  the  presentation 
of  the  class  shields. 


TWENTY-FIFTH  REUNION  49 

ARRIVAL  IN  HEWITT  UNIVERSITY  QUADRANGLE,  AND  SING- 
ING OF  "O  GOD,  BENEATH  THY  GUIDING  HAND,"  WRIT- 
TEN BY  LEONARD  BACON,  B.A.  1820. 

RAISING  OF  THE  NEW  UNIVERSITY  SERVICE  FLAG. 

This  shows  one  thousand  two  hundred  and  twenty-nine  members  of  the 
University  in  war  service — sixty-eight  officers,  and  one  thousand  one 
hundred  and  sixty-one  students  of  the  Class  of  1918  and  later  classes,  of 
whom  twelve  have  lost  their  lives  in  service. 

PRESENTATION  BY  HONORABLE  JOHN  PROCTOR  CLARKE, 
LL.D.,  B.A.  1878,  ON  BEHALF  OF  THE  GRADUATES,  OF 
CLASS  SHIELDS  AND  MEMORIAL  TABLETS  GIVING  THE 
UNIVERSITY'S  PATRIOTIC  RECORD  IN  THE  PRESENT 
WAR. 

ACCEPTANCE  OF  THE   MEMORIALS,   BY  ARTHUR  TWINING 

HADLEY,    Ph.D.,    LL.D,    B.A.    1876,    PRESIDENT    OF    YALE 

UNIVERSITY. 

The  shield  giving  the  summary  shows  five  thousand  five  hundred  and 

twenty-two   graduates    and    non-graduates,    including   the    Class    of    1918, 

devoting  all  their  time  to  war  service,  of  whom  five  thousand  one  hundred 

and  twenty-seven  are  in  the  military  or  naval  forces  of  the  United  States. 

TAPS. 

SINGING,  BY  NOAH  HAYNES  SWAYNE,  2d,  B.A.  1893,  OF  THE 
"BATTLE  HYMN  OF  THE  REPUBLIC,"  THE  GRADUATES 
JOINING  IN  THE  REFRAIN. 

RETREAT. 


Our  group  was  led  by  Mathison  with  our  old  '93  banner, 
followed  by  a  service  flag  with  ten  large  stars,  for  our  ten 
members  in  uniform,  and  with  four  smaller  stars  for  the  uni- 
formed sons  of  classmates.  One  of  these  latter  stars,  golden, 
represented  Moses  Taylor's  son  who  has  made  the  supreme 
sacrifice.     This  banner  was  appropriately  borne  by  the  sons. 

From  the  patriotic  celebration  we  went  to  call  on  President 
Hadley  who  still  lives  at  93  Whitney  Avenue  and  who  talked 
to  us  in  his  usual  happy  strain,  referring  to  several  of  our  mem- 
bers, amongst  them  Parsons,  Robinson,  and  Runk. 

The  Reunion  Dinner  was  held  at  headquarters.  Professor 
H.  A.  Beers,  '69,  was  the  guest  of  honor.  There  were  eighty- 
eight  classmates  present,  the  families  dining  elsewhere.  Shortly 
after  the  Class  was  seated  the  Class  Boy  arrived,  clad  in  the 
uniform  of  the  U.  S.  Navy.  He  was  greeted  with  loud  cheering 
and  all  joined  heartily  in  singing  the  Star  Spangled  Banner  in 
his  honor. 


5o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Announcement  having  been  made  that  Jepson  had  won  the 
Francis  J.  Vernon  Prize  with  a  new  Yale  song,  copies  were  dis- 
tributed and  with  Jepson  at  the  piano  the  song  was  sung  twice 
by  the  entire  company.  The  general  opinion  was  that  the  new 
song  will  soon  gain  a  firm  hold  on  the  affections  of  the  Yale 
family.  The  song  is  set  to  an  old  Netherland  air,  and  is  as 
follows : 

LUX  ET  VERITAS 
Uplift  to  the  heavens  the  folds  of  our  standard, 

Beloved  of  our  fathers,  blue  banner  of  Yale. 
Fling  wide  to  the  nations  its  beauty  and  challenge, 

The  symbol  of  courage  that  never  shall  fail. 

Our  country  is  calling,  we  come  Alma  Mater ! 

We  offer  with  gladness  the  strength  of  our  youth. 
The  forces  of  evil,  tho'  darkly  they  gather 

Shall  falter  and  flee  from  the  light  and  the  truth. 

Proud  emblem  of  heroes,  unstained  with  dishonour 
Lead  forward,  we  follow,  the  first  in  the  fight 

For  freedom,  for  manhood,  for  country,  for  college! 
We  die  for  thy  glory,  thy  truth  and  thy  light. 

Harry  B.  Jepson 

The  stenographer's  report  of  the  speeches  follows : 

The  Toastmaster:  Fellow  Classmates :  Since  we  graduated 
from  Yale  twenty-five  years  ago,  we  have  lost  by  death  thirty- 
one  of  our  comrades.  Since  we  met  here  together  five  years  ago, 
six  of  our  comrades  have  died.     I  ask  you  to  drink  a  silent  toast. 

(Integer  Vitae  was  here  sung,  all  standing.) 

It  was  five  years  ago  we  met  here  last.  At  that  time,  in 
the  year  191 3,  the  world  was  dancing  the  tango  and  the  turkey 
trot  and  was  trying  to  dispose  of  the  surplus  of  the  pile  of  money 
it  had  accumulated.  There  was  no  thought  of  war.  Life  was 
easy,  luxurious,  and  far  from  strenuous.  I  cannot  look  ahead 
to  the  time,  five  years  from  now,  when  we  shall  gather  here  again, 
that  is,  I  cannot  look  ahead  in  the  role  of  prophet.  It  may  be 
that  five  years  from  now  the  war  will  be  ended.  It  may  be  that 
five  years  from  now  the  war  will  be  still  in  progress.  But  how- 
ever that  may  be,  we  have  certainly  found  out  the  seriousness 
of  life  in  this  world  and  we  have  found  out  that  the  United  States, 
and  every  person  in  the  United  States,  is  a  part  of  this  great 
world ;  that  the  United  States  of  America  cannot  go  around  the 
axis  of  the  world  alone;    that  when  we  go  around  Russia  goes 


YALE  '93 

TWENTY-FIFTH  YEAR 
<*  RE-UNION  * 


NEW  HAVEN 
JUNE  15-19, 1918 


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TOMATOES  ANTIBOISE 


CREAM    OF    FRESH    MUSHROOMS 
SALTED    ALMONDS  CELERY 


BAKED    LOBSTER    DIPLOMATE 


SUPREME    DE    POULARDINE    BERGERETTE 
NEW    ASPARAGUS    TIPS  POTATOES    ANNA 


SALADE    ST.    PIERRE 


COUPE    LYDIA  FRIANDISES 


Slr-imtntt  Sinner 

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TOASTMASTER  JOHN    TRUMBULL     ROBINSON 


THE    PRAIRIE    DOG    vs.    THE    SUBMARINE  LOGAN    HAY 

''''But  thou  art  fair;  and  at  thy  birth*  dear  boy* 
Nature  and  fortune  joined  to  make  thee  great.'''' 


FENCE    ORATION  JOHN    HlLL    MORGAN 

"Tell  me  the  tales  that  to  me  were  so  dear* 
Long*  long  ago ;  long*  long  ago." 


AMERICA    REBORN  REV.    EDWARD    T.    MATHISON 

"  Why*  man*  he  doth  bestride  the  narrow  world* 
Like  a  Colossus;   and  we  petty  men 
Walk  under  his  huge  legs*  and  peep  about 
To  find  ourselves  dishonorable  graves.'''' 


THE    EVOLUTION    OF    DENNY   GRADY  LAWRENCE    GREER 

"Look*  he's  winding  up  the  watch  of  his  wit; 
By  and  by  it  zuill  strike." 


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around,  China  goes  around,  Europe  goes  around;  and  to-day 
we  know  what  we  did  not  know  even  five  years  ago,  that  we  are 
actually  an  integral  part  of  the  world. 

I  have  tried  to  look  back  further  than  that.  I  have  tried 
to  look  back  twenty-five  years,  when  we  were  getting  our  edu- 
cation here  at  college.  It  was  a  period  of  profound  peace,  a 
year  of  prosperity.  We  were  young  men,  eighteen,  nineteen, 
and  twenty  years  old,  being  educated,  for  what  we  did  not  exactly 
know.     We  knew  we  had  to  earn  our  livings,  and  occasionally 

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would  hear  some  one  of  us  more  from  the  effervescence  of  youth 
than  for  any  other  reason,  talk  about  his  future  profession  as  a 
calling  on  high  moral  grounds.  But  in  our  education  in  those 
days  we  did  not  realize  what  the  youth  of  to-day  realize  in  Yale 
University.  We  did  not  know  how  important  the  work  of  every 
man  is  in  this  world  of  ours.  We  used  to  study  analytical  geom- 
etry and  graphic  algebra  with  dear  old  Andy  Phillips,  but  it  did 
not  occur  to  us  that  we  could  use  that  knowledge  in  navigating 
ships  or  in  navigating  the  air.  That  we  would  use  it  never 
occurred  to  anybody.  In  analytical  algebra,  I  remember,  some- 
one pictured  the  undergraduate  as  imagining  characters  for  the 
letters  a,  b,  c,  and  x.  x  was  always  a  woman,  as  I  recall,  and 
c  was  an  indifferent  sort  of  a  man,  b  was  another  kind  of  man, 


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and  a  I  think  was  a  very  busy  man,  and  that  was  about  as  seriously 
as  we  looked  at  mathematics. 

Many  of  us  in  those  days  when  we  studied  Isocrates,  that  old 
man  eloquent  (interrupted  by  shouts  and  laughter),  I  think  the 
old  man  was  Isocrates,  but  be  that  as  it  may,  I  know  we  tended 
to  disappoint  our  instructors  with  the  paucity  of  our  oratorical 
powers.  We  never  dreamed  that  we  would  ultimately  turn  out 
an  army  of  four-minute  speakers. 

We  studied  history  with  Professor  Adams,  and  we  looked  upon 
the  Vandals  and  the  Goths  and  the  Huns  as  people  of  the  middle 
ages,  almost  mythological,  and  never  dreamed  that  in  our  day 
and  generation  we  should  actually  meet  those  people  stalking 
about  the  earth  and  calling  for  the  treatment  of  the  butcher. 

I  recall  we  studied  literature  and  French.  We  all  of  us  spent 
months  and  months  on  French,  yet  I  think  hardly  a  man  learned 
to  speak  French.  But  if  we  were  studying  French  to-day,  every 
man  of  us  would  insist  on  learning  how  to  speak  French. 

Literature, — that  was  one  of  the  things  where  we  were  really 
attached  to  our  teacher,  our  beloved  Professor  Beers.  (Ap- 
plause.) There  we  read  Milton  and  learned  how  Satan  was 
cast  out  of  heaven  and  down  to  hell,  and  we  thought  it  purely 
mythological.  We  never  dreamed  that  in  our  day  and  generation 
a  real  ruler  of  a  nation  would  try  to  take  up  Satan  out  of  hell 
and  set  him  on  a  throne  and  make  him  God.  Yet  to-day  that  is 
what  has  happened. 

Now  to-day  Yale  is  in  a  way  almost  a  military  school.  I  trust 
that  five  years  from  now  it  will  not  be  necessarily  restricted  to 
the  teaching  of  military  science  or  to  the  winning  of  the  war. 
Thank  God,  every  energy  of  this  University  to-day  is  bent  to 
winning  the  war.  But  we  are  living  in  very  rapidly  moving  times, 
and  we  know  when  we  stop  to  think,  that  the  problems  of  the 
world  are  on  us,  and  they  are  going  to  be  on  us  when  the  war 
stops  more  than  ever  before,  and  Yale  University  is  going  to 
realize  the  result  of  what  has  happened  in  the  last  four  years. 
In  fact,  every  one  of  those  problems  of  the  world  is  a  problem 
of  Yale,  a  problem  of  every  man  in  this  country,  and  the  one 
thing  we  have  got  to  strive  for  is  this :  we  are  becoming  a  great 
military  nation.  If  this  war  keeps  on  a  year  or  two  we  will 
perhaps  be  almost  the  greatest  military  nation  in  the  world.  We 
will  know  and  feel  our  power,  that  is,  the  power  of  steel  and  iron 
and  gunpowder  and  human  flesh.  And  when  we  stop  to  think 
of  it,  we  have  got  to  be  on  our  guard,  when  we  begin  to  feel 


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our  power,  lest  we  forget  the  purposes  for  which  we  went  into 
this  war.  We  have  got  to  guard  against  the  admiration  of  power. 
We  have  got  to  guard  against  admiration  of  mere  efficiency, 
such  as  we  see  in  Germany.  We  have  got  to  guard  against  the 
things  in  Germany  which  may  appeal  to  a  nation  that  takes  pride 
in  its  mere  power.  We  have  got  to  keep  constantly  in  our  minds 
and  hearts  that  we  went  into  this  war  to  beat  a  nation  which 
had  tried  to  stifle  all  the  noble  things  of  the  spirit.  We  have  got 
to  see,  by  education,  by  constant  thought  and  watchfulness,  that 
when  we  get  our  great  power,  when,  as  we  trust  we  will,  we 
get  our  great  reward  in  the  way  of  success,  that  we  shall  not 
for  one  minute  lose  the  ideals  with  which  we  started  out  in  this 
greatest  crusade  of  all  time;  that  we  shall  remember  we  went 
out  to  fight  a  nation  which  had  arrayed  itself  against  the  things 
that  have  been  most  sacred  in  our  history.  And  I  want  to  empha- 
size the  ease  with  which  a  nation,  feeling  its  strength  and  power, 
can  forget  those  very  things. 

Now  I  do  not  know  what  we  will  be  talking  about  five  years 
from  now,  but  whatever  it  is  we  must  not  forget,  we  must  not 
close  our  eyes  to  the  things  that  will  ever  be  ahead  of  us  in  the 
days  of  our  greatest  success. 

Now  a  friend  told  me  to-day  that  whatever  else  I  did,  a  toast- 
master  must  not  make  a  long  speech  (Laughter  and  cries:  "Too 
late.") — so  I  am  going  to  quit  right  now  (Cheers)  and  I  am 
going  to  start  in  to  introduce  the  real  speakers  of  this  evening. 

When  we  were  in  college  we  learned  one  subject  which  was 
real,  which  meant  something  to  us,  which  has  been  a  real  treasure 
to  us  in  the  years  that  have  gone  by,  and  that  was  literature. 
We  got  our  literature  from  a  man  whom  we  all  loved.  In  think- 
ing over  the  members  of  the  Faculty  who  were  our  instructors 
who  are  alive  to-day,  we  could  think  of  just  one  man  who  was  our 
first  choice  to  come  and  speak  to  us  this  evening.  He  was  not 
only  our  first  choice,  but  he  was  our  last  choice.  He  is  a  poet. 
If  you  have  not  read  his  poems,  I  advise  you  to  do  so.  Most  of 
you  have  read  some  of  his  stories,  "Splitting  Zephyr"  and  other 
stories.  In  one  respect  he  is  like  our  classmate,  William  Warren 
Smith,  he  was  born  in  the  great  city  of  Buffalo  (Laughter)  but 
he  was  unlike  Billy  Smith  in  that  he  left  Buffalo  and  moved  to 
Hartford,  while  Billy  Smith  did  not  move  away  but  continued 
to  be  a  buffalo.  We  have  a  great  affection  for  Professor  Beers, 
and  I  want  to  say  to  him  for  this  Class,  that  we  appreciate  his 
kindness  in  coming  round  to  talk  to  us  this  evening.    We  wanted 


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to  hear  him,  we  are  glad  he  is  here,  and  I  welcome  him  in  behalf 
of  the  Class  with  sincere  cordiality.  (Applause.  Singing,  "He's 
a  Jolly  Good  Fellow.") 

[The  remarks  of  Professor  Beers  were  for  the  most  part 
inaudible  to  the  stenographer  and  can  therefore  only  be  sum- 
marized.] 

Professor  Beers  referred  to  the  many  changes  in  college  since 
our  day  and  the  changes  due  to  the  War.  He  said  the  campus 
was  lonely,  so  many  of  the  boys  had  gone.  The  grass  is  worn 
off  the  campus  by  the  marching  and  counter-marching  of  stu- 
dents in  uniform.  Turning  to  more  personal  matters,  Professor 
Beers  said  that  his  own  grandfather,  Edson  Gallaudet's  and 
Charlie  Fay's  grandfather  were  all  French,  all  educators,  and  that 
his  own  grandfather  and  Edson's  were  both  devoted  to  the  work 
of  teaching  deaf  mutes  to  speak.  He  said  that  he  was  oppressed 
by  the  thought  of  the  great  destruction  caused  by  the  war  of  the 
beauties  of  France,  the  forests,  the  buildings,  the  churches,  and  he 
could  only  hope  that  it  would  soon  end. 

The  Toastmaster:  It  is  not  my  penchant  to  indulge  in  self- 
adulation,  that  is,  adulation  of  things  not  only  of  my  personal 
self,  but  things  with  which  I  am  connected.  I  do  not  like  to  hear 
a  man  get  up  and  blow  about  Yale  or  blow  about  his  Class.  But 
nevertheless,  when  we  were  in  college  we  all  used  to  say  that 
there  was  one  man  in  our  Class  who  was  destined  to  be  great. 
Somehow  or  other  we  had  a  consciousness  that  the  hand  of  fate 
was  going  to  pick  out  that  man  and  make  him  great.  And  for 
once,  at  least,  our  prophetic  vision  was  straight,  and  the  man 
of  whom  we  were  speaking  was  destined  to  be  great. 

I  will  ask  Logan  Hay  to  illuminate  for  us  this  evening  that  very 
edifying  subject  which  has  been  assigned  to  him  as  a  toast,  "The 
Prairie  Dog  versus  the  Submarine." 

Mr.  Hay:  Mr.  Toastmaster  and  Gentlemen:  It  was  not  until 
this  evening  that  I  discovered  my  greatness.  Twenty-five  years 
ago  we  left  these  halls.  The  Class  of  1893  had  not  then  dis- 
covered itself.  The  individuals  of  this  Class  had  not  then  discov- 
ered themselves.  To  some  of  us  this  discovery  came  early;  to 
some  of  us  this  discovery  came  late  in  life,  to  myself  perhaps 
most  recently  of  all,  this  evening.  Some  of  us  discovered  our- 
selves, some  of  us  were  discovered  by  the  outside  world,  and  as 
my  friend  here  remarks,  some  of  us  were  discovered  by  Chris- 
topher Columbus.  In  college  I  did  not  know  one  note  from 
another,  but  this  evening  I  find  myself  with  these  classmates  on 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


my  right  and  left,  as  a  member  of  the  '93  quartette,  so  I  have 
discovered  myself.      (Laughter.) 

Gentlemen,  we  as  a  Class  have  had  meetings  now  Saturday 
night  and  Sunday  night  and  Monday  night,  and  each  of  those 
meetings  has  partaken  more  or  less  of  the  character  of  a  Method- 
ist experience  meeting.  Now,  at  a  Methodist  experience  meeting 
you  know  everyone  is  privileged  to  tell  the  truth,  either  about 


o&m^'y- 


W//7; 


Tke   liglti-  -was  tto-t  suitable  £or 
a  f>h.otofira.f>k  in  front  of  Oshorti. 


himself  or  about  anybody  else,  so  far  as  he  wants  to  and  no 
further.     I  propose  to  avail  myself  of  that  privilege  this  evening. 

I  have  not  enjoyed  my  dinner,  I  have  been  quite  uncomfortable. 
It  is  true  I  have  a  capacious  stomach,  but,  gentlemen,  it  is  not 
large  enough  to  hold  a  dinner  and  a  serious  speech  at  the  same 
time.  This  ordeal  began  for  me  some  ten  days  since,  when  I 
received  a  letter  from  Hartford,  informing  me  that  this  particular 
subject  was  assigned  to  me.  I  accepted  the  subject.  I  wish  I 
hadn't. 

I  happen  to  have  a  cousin  out  in  Springfield  who  is  a  deacon 


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in  one  of  the  churches  there.  I  don't  know  whether  you  gentle- 
men are  familiar  with  the  ways  in  which  money  is  raised  to  pay 
a  church  debt  in  the  West.  This  cousin  of  mine  was  at  one  of 
those  meetings  where  they  were  seeking  to  raise  money  to  pay 
a  church  debt.  He  had  been  recently  married.  They  came  down 
to  him  and  he  put  down  $10,000.  They  thought  he  should  have 
put  down  more  and  asked  the  deacon  for  an  explanation  of  why 
he  had  given  that  small  amount,  so  as  not  to  discourage  others, 
and  then  it  was  announced,  "Deacon  Coleman  says  he  will  give 
$10,000.  He  says  he  would  have  given  $15,000  if  he  hadn't  been 
married."     (Laughter.) 

The  other  night  down  at  the  shore  Mr.  Williams  told  us  of  the 
Christian-like  ways  in  which  they  raise  money  for  the  Red  Cross 
out  in  Cleveland,  and  he  attempted  to  impose  on  this  Class  that 
that  was  an  original  method  discovered  by  him  out  in  Cleveland. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  that  was  only  an  adaptation  of  the  way  in 
which  they  raise  money  to  pay  off  church  debts. 

Now  I  do  not  know,  when  Mr.  Robinson,  the  gentleman  from 
Hartford,  assigned  me  this  particular  subject  on  which  to  speak, 
whether  he  thought  that  central  Illinois  was  the  habitat  of  the 
prairie  dog  or  not.  I  suppose  his  dense  ignorance  may  be  par- 
doned, if  he  thought  it  was.  However  that  may  be,  I  cogitated 
on  the  subject  of  the  prairie  dog  as  I  came  along  on  the  train, 
and  soon  abandoned  that  subject.  I  shortly  after  abandoned  the 
subject  of  the  submarine.  As  Professor  Beers  has  said,  there 
were  only  two  subjects  upon  which  the  mind  could  fix  itself,  one 
was  the  coming  Class  meeting,  and  the  other  was  the  war. 

When  I  reached  New  York  I  went  to  see  my  friend  Harmstad 
at  176  Broadway  and  he  kindly  invited  me  out  to  lunch.  I  did 
not  notice  whether  the  Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Company  closed 
its  doors  when  he  left,  but  however  that  may  be,  during  the  two 
hours  of  our  absence  from  that  institution,  its  real  activities  fell 
into  a  state  of  innocuous  desuetude.  He  proceeded  to  tell  me  of 
the  achievements  of  the  Class  of  '93  and  of  the  various  members. 
He  told  me  that  no  man  stood  higher  in  Podunk  than  John 
Robinson,  then  he  proceeded  to  say,  "There  is  Francis  Parsons, 
who  the  other  day  applied  for  membership  in  a  New  York  club 
and  I  was  asked  to  give  him  a  recommendation.  I  said  in  my 
letter,  'No  man  of  the  Class  of  '93  is  more  highly  regarded  than 
Parsons.'  "  Then  he  proceeded  to  say,  "The  fact  of  the  matter 
is,  the  Class  of  '93  is  the  most  brilliant  Class  that  graduated 
from  Yale  between  1883  and  1903."    Now  I  don't  know  whether 


6o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


ABOVE    THE    ELMS,    on.,     SITTING    AROVND    ON 

he  was  right  or  wrong  in  that  particular.  This  is  not  a  time 
when  we  are  measuring  things  so  much  by  individual  achieve- 
ment. That  is  not  the  way  I  like  to  take  the  Class  of  '93.  I  like 
to  think  of  our  Class  as  a  Class  which  has  not  perhaps  got  a 
few  brilliant  individuals,  but  as  a  Class  of  rather  high  intellectual 
ability,  as  a  Class  having  a  strong  individuality  of  character,  a 
Class  having  tolerance  one  for  the  other,  a  Class  having,  as  it 
were,  charity,  a  Class  having  in  a  high  degree  that  reserve  force, 
that  characteristic  which  was  so  marked  in  George  Case,  which 
we  all  recognized  in  him  and  which  led  us  to  feel  easy  when  he 
came  to  the  bat  at  a  particularly  critical  moment  of  the  game. 
I  think  perhaps  the  Class  lacked  something  in  ideality,  and 
perhaps  something  in  moral  purpose.  But  those  defects  perhaps 
were  due  to  one  truly  genuine  quality, — the  Class  genuinely  hated 
shams.  Dr.  Goodenough  said  that  in  more  forceful  language 
than  I  can,  in  his  speech  of  last  night.  It  has  been  a  pleasure 
to  me  as  I  have  come  back  here  for  one  reunion  after  another, 
and  as  I  have  met  the  individuals  of  this  Class,  to  think  that  I 
discovered  that  out  of  the  individual  experiences  which  each  of 
us  were  meeting  in  our  lives  there  was  developing  a  charity,  a 
greater  moral  earnestness,  a  greater  ideality  than  those  indi- 
viduals possessed  in  college.  It  was  a  pleasure  to  me  to  see  that 
many  of  them,  even  before  these  strenuous  times  of  the  last  two 
years,  were  drawing  on  that  reserve  force  in  them  which  I  like 
to  picture  as  characteristic  of  the  typical  '93  man.  Under  the 
stress  of  the  last  two  years,  and  under  the  moral  awakening 
which  has  resulted  from  the  present  war,  it  has  seemed  to  me 
that  the  Class  has  in  full  measure  corrected  that  lack;  that  we 
have  as  a  Class  developed  moral  earnestness  and  ideality  which 
was  absent,  perhaps,  and  lacking  in  the  Class  when  we  graduated 
from  college. 

This  twenty-fifth  year  after  college  marks  the  half-way  period, 
perhaps,  in  our  after-college  life.  As  we  look  back  at  the  con- 
ditions as  they  existed  then,  none  of   us  realized  that  at  our 


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fKMm  PPfw  Ml 


THE    FENCE    AT    THE    TAFT    CAMPVS 

twenty-fifth  reunion  we  would  be  engaged  in  a  war  of  this  char- 
acter, in  which  our  sons  would  be  making  the  ultimate  sacrifice 
on  the  fields  of  France,  in  which  our  daughters  would  be  serving 
in  auxiliary  units.    All  that  was  utterly  beyond  our  ken. 

As  I  think  of  our  philosophy  of  life  I  am  reminded  of  Dr. 
Roby.  In  the  days  before  he  left  college  he  would  probably  have 
stated  his  philosophy  of  life  in  somewhat  these  terms,  that  every 
man  had  a  right  to  go  to  hell  if  he  wanted  to,  and  that  it  was 
every  man's  business  to  take  care  of  himself  and  let  the  devil 
take  the  hindmost.  Some  of  us  heard  Dr.  Roby's  speech  the 
other  night  at  the  shore  on  the  subject  of  anti-vivisection,  and 
it  did  not  sound  much  like  the  philosophy  that  Roby  had  in 
college.  I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  Roby  lived  up  to  the  ideals 
I  have  expressed,  that  in  his  college  days  he  lived  up  to  the 
philosophy  of  life  that  I  have  attributed  to  him.  He  lived  up, 
as  a  matter  of  fact,  to  a  much  higher  philosophy,  and  he  has 
lived  up  to  a  much  higher  philosophy  since  he  left  college.  He 
would  not  have  had  the  position  he  has  if  he  hadn't.  But,  gentle- 
men, it  is  a  pleasure  to  me  to  see  Dr.  Roby  becoming  a  crusader, 
deeming  it  his  duty  to  reform  other  people  and  his  right  to  do  so. 

I  have  observed  one  characteristic  of  this  reunion  which  has 
very  much  struck  me,  and  that  is  the  power  of  the  Class  at  this 
reunion  to  pass  from  the  serious  to  the  ridiculous,  and  again 
from  the  ridiculous  to  the  serious.  That,  as  you  know,  as  we 
learned  from  Professor  Beers,  is  one  of  the  strengths  of 
Shakespeare. 

I  might  speak  at  length  (Cries  of  "No,  no")  but  being  Dr. 
Lambert's  friend  I  will  now  sit  down.  But  before  I  sit  down 
I  want  to  direct  your  thoughts  seriously  to  a  sentiment  in 
Lincoln's  second  inaugural,  which  it  seems  to  me  sums  up  the 
situation  in  our  day.  You  all  remember  that  quotation,  those 
words  in  which  he  said,  "With  malice  toward  none,  with  charity 
for  all,  with  firmness  in  the  right  as  God  gives  us  to  see  the 
right,  let  us  strive  to  finish  the  work  we  are  in,  to  bind  up  the 


62  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

nation's  wounds,  to  care  for  him  who  shall  have  borne  the  battle, 
and  for  his  widow  and  his  orphan,  to  do  all  which  may  achieve 
and  cherish  a  just  and  lasting  peace  among  ourselves  and  with 
all  nations."     (Applause.) 

The  Toastmaster:  The  Class  of  '93  has  always  been  very 
strong  on  critics.  We  are  overrun  with  legal  luminaries. 
(Laughter.)  I  was  not  thinking  of  myself — but  since  the  death 
of  our  beloved  poet  Rufus  Gibbs,  I  have  had  some  doubt  whether 
we  were  strong  on  creative  literature.  However,  a  couple  of 
weeks  ago  I  told  Parsons  he  had  got  to  prepare  a  poem.  He 
came  to  me  to-night  and  told  me  he  had  prepared  a  poem.  I 
was  thunderstruck,  but  told  him  to  go  ahead.  (Laughter  and 
cheers.) 

Mr.  Parsons:  Mr.  Toastmaster  and  other  Gentlemen:  I  have 
to  confess  that  this  so-called  poem  was  not  primarily  written 
for  this  occasion.  In  fact,  it  is  lugged  in  very  obviously  for 
want  of  a  better.  It  represented  at  the  moment  the  passing  mood 
of  the  writer,  and  its  only  appropriateness  is  this :  We  have 
got  to  a  period  of  life,  all  of  us,  where  the  triumphs  of  life  have 
probably  taken  on  a  very  different  aspect  from  the  anticipation 
of  those  triumphs  twenty-five  years  ago.  The  triumphs  may  be 
greater,  or  they  may  be  less,  but  they  are  different,  as  a  rule. 
Now  what  is  triumph?  What  is  success?  What  is  victory?  Is 
it  fighting  the  good  fight?  Is  it  perhaps  sacrifice?  This  is  a 
little  picture  of  a  quiet  man,  burning  with  high  adventure,  but 
compelled  to  spend  years  of  drudgery  at  a  useless  task.  He 
drank  down  a  sleeping  draught,  shut  off  the  light  and  sank  on 
his  narrow  bed,  and  while  oblivion  held  him  he  dreamed. 

[The  reporter  could  not  get  the  poem.] 

The  Toastmaster:  You  all  know  now  whether  or  not  we  have 
a  poet.  This  is  a  pretty  hard  crowd  to  talk  to,  therefore  I  take 
great  pleasure  in  throwing  before  you  the  next  speaker,  because, 
although  he  is  small,  he  has  no  more  fear  than  Daniel  had  when 
he  entered  the  den  of  lions,  and  he  is  good  at  repartee.  His 
toast  is  "Fence  Oration."  Twenty-eight  years  ago  on  this  spot, 
this  Class  labored  under  the  delusion  that  I  was  an  orator. 
(Laughter.)  Twenty-eight  years  have  gone  before  you  asked 
me  to  represent  you  again,  which  shows  how  short  a  thing  is 
memory,  which  cannot  span  so  few  years.  But  to-night  the  toast 
is  given  to  John  Morgan.  I  hope  he  will  bring  us  back  beneath 
the  elms  to  the  times  when  we  used  to  chase  around  with  Mul- 
vaney  and  Hotchkiss,  and  will  revive  in  us  the  spirit  of  those 


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long-gone  days.  It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  introduce  John 
Hill  Morgan. 

Mr.  Morgan:  Mr.  Toastmaster  and  Gentlemen:  I  have  been 
given,  in  the  great  wisdom  of  the  Chair,  the  duty  of  pronouncing 
the  fence  oration.  My  memory  of  that  college  institution  is 
that  as  Freshmen  we  could  be  roasted  by  name,  but  that  we 
could  not  reply  except  by  anonymous  reference.  But  my  recol- 
lection fails  to  convince  me  that  the  gentlemen  who  represented 
us  in  those  capacities  did  either  roast  the  Class  of  '92  by  name, 
or  hold  up  the  idiosyncracies  of  the  ever  ridiculous  Class  of  '94 
sufficiently  to  suit  the  men  who  are  here,  and  who  are  always 
desirous  of  hearing  those  men  roasted. 

Now  brother  Mathison  has  told  you  that  you  will  not  listen 
to  anything  except  a  serious  speech.  Therefore,  to  be  serious 
for  a  moment,  I  would  begin  by  two  quotations  from  the  Bible, 
knowing  well  that  any  quotation  from  that  source  to  you  will 
be  entirely  new  and  fresh.  (Laughter.)  The  first  quotation 
is  from  the  book  of  Isaiah,  and  which  applies  to  you:  "Their 
strength  was  to  sit  still."  If  I  had  been  writing  the  Bible  I  would 
have  added  to  that  phrase,  "and  keep  your  mouth  shut."  The 
second  quotation,  which  comes  from  Ecclesiastes,  applies  to  me, 
and  it  is,   "Let  your  words  be  few."     (Laughter  and  applause.) 

Now  I  have  got  to  be  serious  for  a  moment,  so  here  goes. 
Twenty-five  years  is  a  long  time  to  be  out  of  college,  and  the 
laurel  crowns  which  should  be  upon  our  brows  seem  to  be  as 
far  away  as  ever,  and  to  be  rapidly  dissolving  into  the  hope  of 
a  halo  to  come.  Another  fact  which  is  dawning  upon  us  is, 
that  what  we  are  is  pretty  much  what  we  are  going  to  be.  A 
man  who  has  made  money  is  going  to  make  more.  A  man  who 
gets  tight  is  going  to  get  tighter.  (Laughter  and  cries  of  "It 
can't  be  done.")  The  man  who  is  a  failure  is  going  to  continue 
to  put  what  is  left  of  his  religion  and  his  money  in  his  wife's 
name  and  sit  down  and  wait  for  something  to  turn  up. 

Now  as  I  journey  along  through  life,  it  is  more  and  more 
borne  in  upon  me  that  life  is  a  strange  series  of  contradictions 
and  paradoxes,  in  which  all  the  rest  of  mankind  differ  from  me 
in  my  point  of  view.  But  remembering  the  words  of  Mathison 
again,  we  must  be  serious,  I  have  prepared  these  notes  for  your 
delectation,  a  few  sentences  of  my  combined  wisdom  of  fifty 
years  which  take  the  form  of  some  concrete  propositions. 

Man  comes  into  the  world  without  his  consent,  and  leaves  it 
against  his  will.    In  infancy  he  is  an  angel,  in  youth  he  is  a  devil, 


64  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

in  old  age  he  tries  to  be  a  saint.  The  sages  tell  you  that  every 
man  ought  to  have  a  wife,  yet  if  a  man  hasn't  got  one,  and  he 
merely  tries  to  borrow  one  from  a  neighbor  for  a  short  time, 
they  put  him  in  jail.  If  a  man  loves  his  fellow  man  they  call 
him  a  philanthropist  and  put  up  a  statue  to  him.  If  he  loves  his 
fellow  women  they  call  him  names  and  he  probably  gets  put  in 
prison  as  well. 

If  a  man  drinks  water  he  gets  typhoid,  if  he  drinks  champagne 
he  gets  boozed  up ;  if  he  drinks  whiskey  he  gets  delirium 
tremens ;  if  he  drinks  not  at  all  they  call  him  a  teetotaller  but 
he  dies  just  the  same.  If  a  man  dies  young  they  tell  you  what 
a  wonderful  career  he  had  before  him;  if  he  dies  old  they  tell 
you  of  his  lost  opportunities.  When  a  baby  he  has  to  be  taught 
everything;  as  a  youth  he  exhausts  the  infinite  resources  of  the 
human  mind  in  resisting  the  introduction  of  knowledge,  and 
knows  it  all ;  in  old  age  he  can  be  taught  nothing.  If  he  starts 
business  as  a  salesman  he  spends  his  time  trying  to  sell  some- 
thing he  has  not  got  to  those  who  do  not  want  it.  If  he  is  a 
banker,  he  is  trying  to  bank  your  money  to  keep  for  himself. 
If  he  is  a  lawyer,  his  mistakes  live  and  ever  rise  up  to  call  him 
blessed,  but  if  he  is  a  doctor  his  mistakes  die  and  they  are  hidden 
in  the  cold  silence  of  the  grave. 

If  a  man's  life  is  filled  with  curious  paradoxes,  how  about  a 
woman's  life?  In  our  day  women  used  to  show  their  legs  at  the 
seashore  and  their  necks  and  shoulders  in  the  ball  room,  but  if 
they  showed  them  both  at  the  same  time  they  were  run  out  of 
society.  Nowadays — but  what's  the  use?  Society  is  no  place 
for  a  respectable  married  man.  That  is  the  reason  I  live  in 
Brooklyn  where  no  such  condition  of  society  exists. 

If  you  speak  about  a  baby  before  it  is  born  you  bring  a  blush 
of  shame  to  the  cheek ;  but  after  it  is  born,  if  you  speak  of 
anything  else  you  are  a  brute. 

Life  is  full  of  complexities.  Perhaps  you  remember  the  man 
from  Tennessee  who  tried  to  explain  a  rather  unfortunate  cir- 
cumstance by  averring  that  a  cyclone  arose  and  blew  him  into 
the  bosom  of  his  neighbor's  wife.  Then  the  neighbor's  wife's 
husband  arose  and  blew  him  into  Abraham's  bosom  and  he 
enjoyed  the  change. 

The  fact  is,  when  a  man  first  comes  into  the  world  everybody 
wants  to  kiss  him ;  in  a  few  years  everyone  wants  to  kick  him, 
and  if  he  lives  too  long  everyone  wants  to  kill  him.  I  think  this 
philosophy  of   life  has   been   best   illustrated  by   the   saying   of 


TWENTY-FIFTH  REUNION  65 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes:  "A  man's  learning  dies  with  him  and 
even  the  memory  of  his  virtues  dies  away;  but  the  dividends 
from  the  stock  which  he  bequeaths  to  his  children  ever  live  to 
keep  his  memory  green." 

I  hope  you  will  take  these  thoughts  along  with  you.  Life  is  a 
funny  place,  but  we  are  all  mighty  serious  about  living  it. 
(Applause.) 

At  this  point  the  toastmaster  introduced  Harmstad,  who,  as 
chairman  of  the  Athletic  Committee,  presented  to  Goodenough 
a  cup  awarded  to  him  for  prowess  in  the  games  held  on  Monday 
afternoon.  Fay  then  read  letters  and  telegrams  of  regret  from 
various  absentees,  including  L.  Allen,  Clark,  Birdsall,  Hickox, 
Field,  Jordan,  Maffitt,  Osborn,  and  Quintard.  Fay  closed  by 
reading  the  following  letter  from  George  Slade,  Deputy  Director 
General  of  American  Railways  in  France: 

Somewhere  in  France 

22  May,  1918 
My  dear  Fay  : — 

The  censorship  rules  are  such  that  I  cannot  answer,  as  fully  as  either 
you  or  I  would  wish,  your  letter  of  16  April  suggesting  that  I  send  a  mes- 
sage to  the  Class  of  '93  to  be  read  at  the  reunion  in  New  Haven  on 
15  June. 

Ever  since  war  was  declared  on  Germany  by  the  United  States  on 
6  April,  1917,  I  have  been  impressed  with  the  fact  that  it  would  be  neces- 
sary for  us  all  to  do  not  only  our  "bit"  but  everything  in  our  power,  if  we 
were  to  have  our  part  in  "making  the  world  safe  for  democracy."  As  the 
war  progressed  and  became  centered  on  the  western  front,  I  was  convinced 
that  the  final  decision  would  be  reached  on  the  historic  soil  of  France,  and 
that  our  every  resource  in  men,  money,  and  material  would  have  to  be  put 
in  the  balance  there.  I  felt,  and  still  feel,  that  there  are  as  great  oppor- 
tunities for  helpful  service  at  home  as  abroad,  that  a  united  country  must 
stand  behind  our  Army,  contributing  to  its  personnel,  providing  its  equip- 
ment, supplies  and  the  means  of  its  transportation,  and  that  this  demands 
arranging  and  directing  talent  of  the  highest  type.  It  was  particularly 
difficult  for  me  though  to  decide  whether  I  was  more  needed  at  home  than 
abroad,  and  I  had  much  conflicting  advice  from  my  friends  on  the  course 
I  should  pursue.  Finally  there  came  a  call  from  General  Atterbury,  who 
is,  as  you  know,  a  Yale  man  and  head  of  our  transportation  in  France,  for 
some  railroad  men  who  had  had  executive  as  well  as  practical  operating 
experience.  That  seemed  to  offer  one  the  opportunity  of  having  some 
entirely  outside  and  impartial  authority  decide  my  case,  because  the  call  was 
made  after  the  railroads  of  the  United  States  had  been  placed  under  gov- 
ernment control,  and  by  applying  for  a  commission  and  assignment  to  our 
transportation  in  France  I  could  make  the  government  for  which  I  would 
be  working  in  either  case  determine  whether  I  should  stay  or  go. 


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I  therefore  made  my  application,  was  accepted  and  on  March  9  commis- 
sioned Major  in  the  Railway  Transportation  Corps  of  the  National  Army. 
The  decision  consequently  was  made  for  me  and  my  mind  was  quite 
at  ease. 

I  received  my  sailing  orders  the  last  of  March  and  left  soon  after.  I  had 
excellent  accommodations  on  a  fine  ship  and  the  voyage  was  uneventful. 
I  landed  in  another  country  and  was  thus  enabled  to  see  a  good  many 
interesting  things  on  the  way  to  the  headquarters  of  my  department  in 
France.  When  I  reached  there  I  was  temporarily  assigned  to  some  special 
work  which  kept  me  traveling  by  motor  and  train  for  about  three  weeks. 
This  allowed  me  to  learn  on  the  ground  some  of  our  activities  and  to 
become  familiar  with  our  organization  and  plans  for  future  development. 
I  was  then  appointed  to  my  present  position  of  Deputy  Director  General  of 
Transportation  with  headquarters  in  this  large  city.  My  office  is  in  a 
building  principally  occupied  by  a  French  department  with  which  a  good 
deal  of  my  business  is  transacted,  and  I  am  finding  the  work  extremely 
interesting. 

I  have  joined  a  club  which  has  been  established  here  for  the  allied  offi- 
cers and  I  meet  there  a  great  many  interesting  men  who  are  doing  big  and 
important  things. 

There  is  an  astonishing  number  of  college  men  in  the  army  and  its  allied 
activities  here  now,  with  new  arrivals  almost  every  day,  an  indication  of 
the  patriotic  spirit  which  our  curriculum  develops.  One  connected  with 
our  army  now  is  proud  that  he  is  not  only  an  American  but  an  American 
College  man. 

It  is  quite  evident  that  more  and  still  more  is  expected  of  and  must  be 
done  by  the  United  States  in  the  war,  which  means  that  we  shall  not  only 
have  to  increase  the  size  of  our  military  organization  abroad,  but  organize 
our  resources  of  every  sort  at  home  so  as  to  keep  our  army  and  those  of 
our  allies  supplied  with  every  thing  they  need  which  we  are  in  any  way 
able  to  furnish. 

The  United  States  have  not  yet,  as  I  can  assure  you  from  my  personal 
observations,  thrown  themselves  into  the  business  of  making  war  as  have 
the  nations  over  here  and  it  is  absolutely  necessary  that  they  should  if  they 
are  to  put  into  the  scale  the  weight  of  men  and  material  needed  to  turn 
tht  balance  for  the  Allies. 

Of  course  you  know  that  nearly  every  family  in  France,  England,  and 
Italy  has  lost  a  father,  husband,  son  or  brother.  These  losses  overshadow 
the  other  sacrifices  which  every  one  has  been  called  upon  to  make,  but  they 
too,  have  been  a  real  contribution  to  the  cause  and  have  been  borne  so 
patiently  and  uncomplainingly  that  we  have  heard  but  little  of  them. 

Some  of  those  who  are  doing  their  part  at  home  will  be  called  upon  to 
make  the  greater  sacrifices,  to  suffer  losses  as  have  so  many  over  here,  but 
all  can,  by  putting  the  winning  of  the  war  ahead  of  everything  else,  make 
those  other  contributions  which  are  so  essential  at  this  time. 

When  one  sees  how  non-essentials  have  been  subordinated  to  the  essen- 
tials over  here,  and  then  calls  to  mind  how  little  headway  a  similar  policy 
has  made  at  home,  it  makes  one  fear  that  our  democracy  cannot  perfect 
the  organization  which  will  make  us  fill  in  history  the  place  we  ought 
to  have. 


TWENTY-FIFTH  REUNION  67 

My  message,  therefore,  to  my  fellow  classmates  is  this :  Put  yourselves, 
your  sons,  your  talents,  your  strength,  and  your  money  at  the  disposal  of 
your  government  and  make  it  your  business,  every  one  of  you,  to  do  some- 
thing as  a  part  of  your  daily  work  to  help  win  the  war.  Come  over  here 
if  you  know  there  is  a  place  you  can  fill,  but  if  you  stay  at  home,  don't 
think  that  you  have  not  the  same  obligation  to  work  for  the  cause.  Team 
work,  which  for  so  many  years  put  Yale  in  the  front  rank  of  our  univer- 
sities, is  something  you  all  understand  well,  and  it  was  never  more  neces- 
sary than  it  is  to-day  in  the  organization  of  the  body  politic. 

I  have  seen  Arthur  Lord  and  I  shall  look  for  Babbitt  and  Bacon.  Per- 
haps later  on  we  can  find  enough  '93  men  in  France  to  hold  a  miniature 
reunion — I  hope  so. 

With  my  best  wishes  to  all  the  members  of  the  finest  class  that  ever 
graduated  from  Yale,  believe  me 

Faithfully  yours 

George  T.  Slade 

San  Francisco 
I  was  very  much  pleased  to  receive  your  telegram  regarding  the  reunion, 
but  I  am  very  sorry  to  say  that  at  present  there  appears  little  prospect 
of  my  being  able  to  come  on.     This  is  a  great  disappointment  to  me. 

G.  L.  Rathbone 

San  Mateo,  Calif. 
I  want  you  to  express  to  the  class  members  how  sorry  I  am  that  I  will 
not  be  able  to  make  the  trip,  and  express  to  all  of  them  my  most  sincere 
wishes  for  their  welfare  and  happiness. 

Charles  W.  Clark 

Gladstone  School, 

123 1  South  Robey  Street, 
Chicago,  III. 
It  is  mainly  just  because  I  am  in  charge  of  a  school  that  does  not  close 
for  the  year  till  June  28  that  I  feel  it  inadvisable  to  be  away  for  the 
week  preceding  the  last  week  or  for  any  other  entire  week,  for  that  matter. 

H.  S.  Vaile 

St.  Louis 
Absolutely  impossible  for  me  to  be  with  you.     Please  present  my  regrets 
to  all;   also  my  wishes  for  a  pleasant  and  profitable  reunion. 

William  Maffitt 

Pittsford,  Vt. 
I  cannot  tell  you  how  disappointed  I  am  that  I  cannot  in  all  probability 
attend  our  reunion.  I  have  been  a  little  out  of  health  and  am  in  Vermont 
trying  to  get  well  quick,  but  it  won't  be  quick  enough,  I  am  afraid,  for  the 
'93  meeting.  Will  you  please  give  everybody  my  best  remembrances — I 
shall  be  with  you  in  spirit  and  think  of  you  all,  all  the  time. 

John  H.  Field 


68  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Embarkation  Hospital, 

Camp  Stuart,  Newport  News,  Va. 
There  is  no  question  that  I  will  be  unable  to  be  at  the  party  on  the  15th 
of  June  as  I  probably  will  be  here  at  Newport  News  or  abroad  by  that  time. 
There  is  very  little  to  tell  you  except  that  I  am  in  command  of  the 
Embarkation  Hospital  at  this  port,  a  very  large  hospital  and  one  that  is 
steadily  growing.  This  is  a  rather  big  command  and  is  keeping  me  very 
busy. 

Give  everybody  my  regards  and  tell  them  that  I  am  sorry  that  I  cannot 
get  away. 

Wm.  S.  Terriberry, 

Lieut.  Colonel,  M.  C,  N.  A. 

St.  Paul,  Minn. 

This  is  the  day  I  should  be  leaving  but  there  is  no  prospect  of  it. 

Remember  me  to  all  the  boys.  I  realize  that  there  never  will  be  another 
reunion  like  this  one  and  I  am  simply  sick  at  heart  when  I  think  of  you 
all  and  the  chance  I  have  to  miss.  It  would  do  me  good  to  give  those  old 
faces  the  O.  O.  though  my  recollection  and  conclusion  from  my  experience 
five  years  ago  is  that  age  has  not  raised  the  average  pulchritude.  I  would 
be  perfectly  willing  to  subject  my  aesthetic  self  to  torture,  however,  under 
the  circumstances.  To  us  who  rarely  run  across  any  of  the  class  during 
the  year,  to  miss  one  of  these  gatherings  means  more  than  you  realize. 
About  all  we  ever  hear  of  anyone  is  through  the  Alumni  Weekly  and  an 
occasional  encounter  with  a  wandering  classmate. 

If  these  were  other  times  and  less  serious,  I  would  hold  a  solemn  vigil 
simultaneously  with  the  Shore  Dinner  next  Sunday  night,  surrounding 
an  appropriate  number  of  Scotch  highballs ;  would  repeat  the  performance 
at  an  appropriate  hour  on  Monday  and  make  a  humorous  after-dinner 
speech  to  myself  and  would  pour  in  several  libations  to  Bacchus  on  Tues- 
day evening,  trusting  to  the  telepathic  effect  of  the  New  Haven  gathering 
for  a  good  time.  I  shall  have  to  vigilize  without  the  assistance  of  the 
highball  but  my  heart  will  be  with  you  all  anyway. 

Webster  Wheelock 

Somewhere  in  Ulster  County,  N.  Y. 
My  kindest  regards  and  greetings  to  the  men  of  '93  with  whom  I  am  not 
permitted  to  gather.  I  never  expected  to  miss  it  and  my  disappointment 
is  great,  but  I  shall  not  cherish  vain  and  lasting  regrets.  Life  is  too  full 
of  the  future  to  worry  over  a  dying  and  dead  past.  The  present  calls 
for  every  man  to  stand  up  and  be  counted,  "for  God,  for  country,  and 
for  Yale."  When  the  count  is  made  every  man  of  '93  will  register, 
"Here." 

h.  c.  quintard 

Christ  Church  Rectory, 

Cooperstown,  N.  Y. 
Gentlemen  of  Ninety-Three : — 

The  biggest  thing  in  Yale  life,  next  to  Yale  herself,  is  the  Class. 

The  high  prizes  of  Yale  are  carried  off  by  ability  and  effort.  Brains 
and  study  win  Baccalaureate  honours.  Pluck  and  skill  are  rewarded  by 
imperishable  athletic  fame. 


TWENTY-FIFTH  REUNION  69 

But  the  striking  truth  is  that,  after  twenty-five  years,  what  warms  a 
man's  heart  is  not  his  own  position  or  achievement  in  college  or  after- 
ward. He  is  proudest  of  the  one  thing  for  which  he  cannot  claim  any 
personal  credit  whatever — the  sheer  gift  of  God  that  made  him,  by  a  turn 
of  the  calendar,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  Ninety-Three! 

Ralph  Birdsall 

Kelly  Field,  Texas 
Ninety-Three  Reunion  Committee : 

Your  message  helps  greatly.     Wish  could  be  with  you. 

Charles  R.  Hickox 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Class  Reunion  Committee: 

Appreciate  telegram  of  yourself  and  others  urging  me  to  be  present  in 
New  Haven  to-morrow.  Inability  to  be  there  cause  of  very  deep  regret 
not  only  to  myself  but  to  Mrs.  Eddy  and  my  three  boys,  all  of  whom 
expected  to  attend.     Give  my  regards  to  all  who  ask  for  me. 

Charles  B.  Eddy 

New  York  City 

You  will  remember  that  when  you  wrote  me  recently  and  paid  me  the 
compliment  of  selecting  me  as  one  of  the  speakers  at  our  Class  Dinner, 
I  replied  saying  that  it  was  quite  uncertain  whether  I  could  attend,  and 
suggested  that  someone  else  be  chosen  who  could  certainly  be  there  and 
be  far  more  qualified  than  I  to  address  such  a  notable  gathering. 

I  am  sorry  to  have  to  write  you  and  say  that  my  fears  were  justified 
and  that  I  shall  not  be  able  to  be  with  you  to-morrow  at  New  Haven. 
This  is  a  real  disappointment  to  me,  and  I  trust  that  you  will  not  consider 
me  a  slacker. 

The  toast  which  you  have  allotted  to  me  smacks  of  things  that  are 
absolute.  Poor  Denny  Grady's  hack  has  gone  the  way  of  many  ancient 
institutions,  like  Kirk,  Murray,  and  Hugh  J.  Reynolds,  and  in  these  modern 
days  has  been  superseded  by  the  joy-riding  taxi  or  the  "rubberneck 
wagon." 

For  those  of  the  class  who  have  been  fortunate  enough  to  reach  New 
Haven  this  reunion  must  be  a  peculiarly  interesting  one.  When  we  look 
back  to  what  we  were,  and  then  consider  what  we  are  now,  I  think  the 
Class  of  '93  has  every  reason  to  be  proud  of  its  record.  Around  your 
tables  to-morrow  night  will  sit  men  who  have  "made  good."  Many  dif- 
ferent careers  and  vocations  will  be  represented,  and  if  it  is  proper  to 
throw  ourselves  a  few  bouquets, — and  if  we  do  not,  probably  no  one  else 
will — I  think  it  can  be  truly  said  that  the  representatives  of  this  Class  of 
'93  are  in  each  instance  in  the  "first  division."  Military  science,  the 
church,  medicine,  law,  manufacturing,  mining,  agriculture,  education, 
science,  finance  and  the  fine  arts,  all  have  felt  the  influence  of  Yale  '93 
and  have  been  correspondingly  benefited. 

Well  do  I  remember  that  June  day  twenty-five  years  ago  when  we 
gathered  as  the  youngest  Yale  graduates  and  marched  forth  to  seek  our 


7o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

fortunes,  and  I  am  confident  that  if  the  conditions  which  now  exist  had 
been  then  present,  our  class  would  have  been  as  willing,  ready  and  eager 
as  are  the  graduating  classes  of  today  to  divert  its  march  from  this  goal 
and,  instead,  to  turn  its  steps  to  the  service  of  our  country. 

Won't  you  be  good  enough  to  say  for  me  how  much  I  regret  my  inability 
to  attend  the  reunion,  and  also  express  my  best  wishes  for  its  success. 

Lawrence  Greer 

The  Toastmaster:  I  wish  to  call  for  a  few  minutes'  talk  from 
the  one  man  in  the  service  whom  we  have  here  to-night. 

Major  Runk:  Mr.  Toastmaster  and  fellow  members  of  the 
Class  of  '93 :  After  hearing  George  Slade  on  his  work  in  France 
I  am  not  sorry  to  tell  you  that  the  mere  sight  of  the  statue  of 
Frederick  the  Great  there  in  Washington  made  my  fingers  itch 
for  a  month  to  get  hold  of  a  rope  and  get  it  around  his  neck. 
What  would  have  happened  I  do  not  know,  but  President  Wilson 
relieved  the  strain  by  ordering  it  taken  down. 

There  is  a  real  spirit  of  democracy  abroad  in  the  land.  As 
I  was  coming  up  from  Annapolis  there  was  a  group  of  engi- 
neers from  Camp  Devens  and  they  were  singing  the  song  about 
"We  will  all  go  over  there  together.  Some  will  come  before  and 
some  will  come  after  but  we  will  all  go  over  there  together." 

I  am  in  the  service  just  as  all  the  rest  of  you  are,  only  some 
are  serving  in  a  civil  capacity.  You  are  all  helping  just  as  much. 
I  am  in  because  I  could  not  help  it.  When  the  war  broke  out  I 
studied  for  a  while  what  it  meant,  and  I  made  up  my  mind  that 
this  war  was  big  enough  to  justify  a  man  in  giving  up  what  he 
was  doing  and  going  into  it.  The  issue  that  presented  itself  to 
me  was  this, — and  the  issue  has  not  changed:  Shall  force  and 
fraud  and  fear  rule  the  world?  It  is  nothing  more  than  that, 
nothing  less  than  that.  We  have  seen  the  German  nation,  as  a 
nation,  seeking  to  rule  the  world.  They  have  announced  the 
doctrine  that  they  are  better  than  anybody  else,  that  anybody 
else  can  only  live  by  their  permission.  With  them  it  is  a  case 
of  submit  or  be  exterminated,  to  all  the  world.  To  that,  of 
course,  we  can  have  only  one  answer.  They  have  carried  out 
their  policy  of  frightfulness  for  the  purpose  of  terrorizing  every- 
body who  could  be  terrorized, — raping  women,  killing  old  men, 
murdering  innocent  children  to  frighten  the  mothers,  turning 
the  mothers  that  were  left  into  mere  brood  mares  to  breed  more 
cannon  fodder.  We  have  seen  them  deliberately  killing  all  the 
men  they  could,   deliberately   wrecking  the   lives   of   prisoners, 


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breaking  down  their  constitutions,  with  no  other  purpose  than 
establishing  their  power  and  making  everyone  who  came  under 
their  power  submit  to  them  or  become  physical  wrecks  for  the 
rest  of  their  days. 

That  is  the  whole  history  of  the  war;  that  is  the  issue  that 
has  drawn  me  into  it  and  that  is  the  issue  we  have  to  fight  out. 
We  belong  to  the  nations  who  believe  in  the  doctrine  of  live  and 
let  live,  who  recognize  the  brotherhood  of  man.  The  German 
nation  recognizes  neither. 

We  have  to  bear  in  mind,  too,  that  their  whole  history  is 
founded  on  the  policy  of  war  and  domination  by  war.  Since  the 
time  of  Frederick  the  Great,  every  time  they  have  been  in  war 
they  have  taken  territory,  from  Austria,  from  France,  and  now 
in  this  war  they  are  trying  to  take  more  than  they  ever  got 
before.  And  this  war  has  got  to  continue  until  the  German  nation 
as  a  nation  learns  that  crime  and  robbery  do  not  go,  that  the 
world  will  not  stand  for  it.  We  must  make  the  German  nation 
see  as  a  nation  that  they  have  got  to  atone,  they  have  got  to 
make  reparation  for  all  the  wrong  they  have  done. 

Personally  I  fear  this  war  is  just  beginning.  I  feel  that  this 
country  is  just  to-day  awaking  to  the  issues.  I  feel  it  is  the 
part  of  educated  men,  men  of  our  insight,  of  our  breadth  of  view 
and  of  our  gifts  of  education  and  knowledge,  if  we  have  the 
spirit  Yale  has  given  to  us,  to  show  just  where  we  are,  to  set 
our  faces  firmly  against  any  premature  peace,  and  keep  this 
fight  up  until  this  horrible  thing  we  know  as  Prussian  militarism 
is  forever  driven  from  the  earth.     (Applause.) 

It  rests  with  us  to  bear  the  brunt.  England  and  France  have 
given  of  their  blood,  of  their  money,  of  their  strength  for  three 
years  and  for  two  years  we  profited  by  it.  Now  we  must  spend 
our  best  blood  and  our  best  strength  and  our  money.  It  is 
America  to-day  that  has  got  to  win  the  war.  It  is  the  American 
soldiers  in  France  to-day  who  have  prevented  the  German 
offensive  from  being  successful,  have  prevented  the  British  and 
French  armies  from  being  separated.  It  is  American  boats  which 
are  wrecking  the  submarines.  It  is  America  that  is  financing 
the  nations  at  war.  And  we  have  got  to  continue  that.  We  have 
to-day  over  one-third  of  the  Class  in  some  way  serving  the  gov- 
ernment, many  in  a  way  that  does  not  show  in  the  record.  I 
hope  that  number  will  improve,  I  hope  it  will  get  nearer  one-half. 

I  believe  that  this  country  has  been  allowed  to  grow  up 
isolated   from   European   jealousies   and   European   strife,   over 


72  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

on  this  side,  the  most  exclusive  continent  in  the  world,  and  that 
we  have  been  permitted  to  develop  and  become  the  greatest, 
richest  nation  in  the  world,  in  order  that  at  this  time  we  can  come 
to  deliver  the  world  from  force,  fraud,  fear,  and  all  the  powers 
of  hell  that  threaten.  And  I  call  upon  you  to  be  loyal,  and  to 
pledge  to  the  government  of  which  we  are  members,  as  our  fore- 
fathers did  in  '76,  our  lives,  our  fortunes,  and  our  sacred  honor. 
(Applause.) 

The  Toastmaster:  It  is  gratifying  to  me  to  find  that  some 
of  the  legal  profession  have  been  able  to  go  into  the  service  of 
the  country.  Louis  Runk  was  a  lawyer.  Other  lawyers  are 
actually  giving  their  services  to  their  country.  I  had  an  idea 
that  lawyers  were  a  more  or  less  non-essential  group  and  the 
only  way  a  lawyer  could  do  anything  for  his  country  was  by 
giving  up  the  law  and  helping  the  Red  Cross  and  one  thing  or 
another,  although  before  the  war  I  was  a  little  bit  proud  of  the 
law.  Some  of  us  who  are  members  of  the  legal  fraternity  had 
to  sit  and  take  a  most  powerful  castigation  (Laughter)  from  a 
member  of  another  profession.  I  shall  have  to  ask  the  help 
of  you  gentlemen,  those  of  you  who  were  at  our  supper  last 
night,  because  to-day  I  came  across  something,  I  will  not  call 
it  a  poem  although  it  is  in  the  form  of  a  poem.  I  shall  ask  those 
of  you  who  heard  the  proceedings  last  night  to  listen  to  this  and 
see  if  you  can  throw  any  light  upon  the  author.  The  thing  as 
I  find  it  is  headed   "Curiosity"   and  reads  as  follows : 

He  is  a  rural  dominie, 

And  looked  quite  harmless  unto  me. 

For  I,  old  friends  of  '93, 

Am  of  the  law's  fraternity. 

I  thought  to  test  the  dominie, 

To  find  what  sort  his  faith  might  be. 

In  Ledyard  town  'tis  hard,  you  see, 

To  tell  a  parson  from  a  bee. 

'Twas  idle  curiosity, 

But  his  faith  is  Goodenough  for  me, 

And  I  must  say,  the  dominie 

Is  rather  good  at  repartee. 

The  next  toast  is  "America  Reborn."  To  that  toast  another 
dominie  is  to  respond.  When  the  toast  was  selected,  which  was 
in  August,  I  did  not  know  that  brother  Mathison  was  the  father 
of  a  fifteen-year-old  boy  who  stands  six  feet  two  and  one-half 
inches  in  his  stocking  feet,  and  of  another  boy  eleven  years  old 


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who  has  outgrown  his  eighteen-year-old  breeches,  and  it  was  in 
no  sense  of  that  sort  that  I  assigned  to  him  the  toast  "America 
Reborn."  (Laughter.)  He  comes  of  the  race  of  the  sons  of 
Anak.  I  believe  he  will  be  able  to  interest  us  and  to  instruct 
us  seriously  on  this  noble  topic  which  has  been  assigned  to  him. 

Mr.  Mathison:  Mr.  Toastmaster  and  members  of  the  Class  of 
'93 :  We  have  been  abundantly  supplied  with  splendid  speeches 
this  evening,  and  I  am  going  to  decline  to  go  into  this  splendid 
subject  which  has  been  allotted  to  me  and  which  I  would  far 
prefer  to  leave  to  your  own  pregnant  imaginations  to  bring  forth 
for  me  all  of  that  which  you  might  in  confidence  ascribe  to  me 
of  eloquence  or  philosophy. 

I  want  to  say  a  word  with  reference  to  Ralph  Birdsall.  He 
has  been  spoken  of  as  having  attained  great  repute  in  the  field 
of  a  country  parish.  I  am  sure  you  will  all  be  pleased  to  know 
that  he  has  gone  far  beyond  that.  This  spring  he  was  at  Berkeley 
Divinity  School  to  deliver  a  series  of  lectures  which  obtain  in 
that  institution,  a  yearly  course  of  lectures  delivered  by  men 
selected  because  of  their  eminence  or  scholarship,  and  it  was,  I 
think,  a  unique  tribute  in  the  annals  of  Berkeley  Divinity  School 
to  select  a  man  who  was  serving  and  had  served  his  entire  min- 
istry in  so  inconspicuous  a  place  and  so  small  a  field  as  that 
offered  by  Christ  Church  parish.  I  attribute  it  to  the  forceful 
mentality  of  this  man,  which  shone  forth  in  spite  of  the  small 
place  in  which  he  labored.  At  the  close  of  that  series  of  lectures 
there  was  accorded  to  him  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divinity, 
the  highest  tribute  of  scholastic  honor  that  Berkeley  Divinity 
School  ever  bestows  upon  any  man  outside  of  the  episcopate. 
(Applause.)  The  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  our  institu- 
tion here  would  be  only  an  expression  of  the  same  tribute  of 
honor  as  that  for  which  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divinity  from 
the  Berkeley  Divinity  School  stands.  I  wanted  to  say  that  because 
I  know  you  feel  an  interest  in  him. 

I  would  not  want  to  discuss  the  matter  of  the  inspiration  of 
prophecy.  In  the  olden  days  it  was  supposed  to  emanate  from  a 
species  or  degree  of  intoxication,  and  theologians  even  debate 
as  to  whether  it  is  conscious  or  unconscious.  A  little  while  ago 
Skee  Harmstad  declared  that  the  oratory  and  poetry  of  the 
evening  had  come  to  an  end,  and  I  would  not  for  a  moment 
want  to  take  away  from  him  the  repute  and  the  record  of  a  true 
prophet.     I  merely  want  to  suggest  one  thought. 

You  who  are  physicians  and  you  who  are  fathers  know  that 


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birth  is  always  attended  with  pain.  And  there  is  not  a  student  of 
human  experience  but  knows  that  somehow  in  war,  somehow  in 
the  awful  pain  of  national  and  home  life,  the  great  steps  of 
advancement  and  uplift  have  been  made.  I  do  not  know  why  this 
should  be ;  I  only  know  that  it  is.  And  as  we  see  the  awful  desola- 
tion, the  horror,  the  suffering  of  this  war,  we  cannot  fail  to  recog- 
nize that  they  must  be  birth  pains  of  something  great  and  lasting. 
And  with  this  thought  thrown  out  to  you  I  am  going  to  leave 
what  might  very  properly  follow  in  the  way  of  philosophy  or 
oratory  in  the  discussion  of  this  subject,  and  let  that  one  thought 
sink  into  your  minds.  And  let  us  watch  with  expectancy  for 
that  which  will  be,  I  doubt  not,  the  outcome  of  the  war  in  a 
vastly  glorified  America,  through  its  new  birth.     (Applause.) 

The  Toastmaster:  The  next  toast  I  think  will  be  at  this  stage 
of  the  evening,  "Silence  is  Golden."  It  gives  me  great  pleasure 
to  present  the  long-distance  trophy  to  our  classmate  who  has 
come  here  from  the  distant  republic  of  Cuba,  Mr.  Wilcox,  "Wally" 
Wilcox.     (Cheers  and  cries  of   "Speech.") 

Mr.  Wilcox:  I  don't  know  whether  you  appreciate  what  it 
means  to  me  to  be  asked  to  make  a  speech  to-night,  when  I  have 
never  made  one  before  in  my  life.  I  want  to  tell  you  that  I  have 
been  for  four  months  on  the  War  Trade  Board  of  Cuba  and  we 
have  been  trying  to  distribute  the  fruit  and  arrange  the  shipping 
for  Cuba  along  the  lines  that  we  have  in  this  country.  We  have 
been  distributing  70,000  barrels  of  flour  a  month,  and  our 
ordinary  amount  is  82,000  barrels.  That  makes  about  five 
pounds  a  month  for  each  person  in  Cuba.  We  have  allowed  six 
pounds  a  month  for  all  those  who  are  interested  in  the  distribu- 
tion of  sugar.  Mr.  Harry  H.  Morgan  is  my  chief.  He  was 
formerly  consul  for  the  town  of  Hamburg  and  came  out  of 
Germany  after  Mr.  Gerard.  He  was  appointed  by  the  War  Trade 
Board  and  the  Fuel  and  Shipping  Boards  in  Cuba.  Mr.  Morgan 
has  been  trying  to  see  that  the  island  of  Cuba  should  send  out  as 
large  a  crop  of  sugar  as  possible.  The  island  of  Cuba  sends  out 
as  a  general  rule  one-third  of  the  entire  world's  supply  of  sugar. 

Now  we  say,  why  should  we  send  flour,  lard,  pork,  and  all  those 
things  to  Cuba?  Why  shouldn't  they  raise  their  own  food? 
They  do  raise  their  own  food.  They  send  it  to  us, — but  in  another 
form.  Sugar  is  a  very  important  item,  tobacco  is  a  very  important 
item,  pineapples,  oranges,  and  other  fruits  are  important.  (Voice : 
What  about  bananas?)  Yes,  and  bananas.  While  we  are  send- 
ing food  to  Cuba  we  have  an  important  power  over  the  distri- 


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75 


Lon£  Distance 

Presentation 

ofaCujo 


sugar  to  Mexico? 


going 
sugar 


trying 
States 
coal." 


bution  of  coal,  which  may  be  indicated  by  the  fate  of  one  ship 
that  came  from  Spain  with  the  idea  of  going  to  Mexico.  When 
she  came  to  Havana  she  was  to  take  a  large  cargo  of  sugar  to 
Mexico.  Mexico  is  essentially  pro-German,  and  Cuba  is  essen- 
tially pro- Ally.  So  when  this 
shipment  arrived  in  Havana 
harbor  Mr.  Morgan  says, 
"What  are  you  going  to  do? 
Do  you  want  to  take  a  lot  of 
If  you  are 

to    Mexico    with    this 

which    we    have    been 

to   get  to  the   United 

I    will    not    give    you 

This  ship  stayed  seven 
days  in  the  harbor  of  Havana 
and  then  it  was  sent  back  to 
Spain  and  the  sugar  never  got 
to  Mexico.    That  is  one  of  the 

things  we  are  doing.  I  don't  know  as  these  things  will  be  very 
interesting  to  you.  But  I  want  to  say  that  when  I  came  up  here 
I  came  on  a  ship.  Everybody  said,  "Why  do  you  go  to  sea  and 
take  the  risk  of  submarines  ?"  I  talked  with  a  friend  of  mine  on 
the  way  and  I  said  to  him,  "Why  did  you  take  this  trip?"  He 
said,  "I  didn't  want  to  have  the  Germans  scare  me."  That  was 
the  attitude  of  many  on  the  boat,  we  didn't  want  German  fright- 
fulness  to  scare  us,  so  we  came  up  by  water.  (Applause.)  We 
came  out  from  Havana  about  seven  o'clock  in  the  evening.  The 
next  morning  about  seven  o'clock  one  of  our  patrols  came  out 
and  said,  "Captain,  you  will  go  along  the  coast  as  close  as  you 
can  go  to  Jacksonville,  and  you  will  go  at  night  with  no  lights, 
nobody  will  be  allowed  to  smoke  or  show  any  lights  on  the  boat." 
We  turned  in  to  Jacksonville,  and  in  the  meantime  the  aeroplanes 
were  around  us  and  a  dirigible  passed  over  us,  the  first  dirigible 
I  had  seen  in  my  life.  It  showed  the  wonderful  power  they  had 
of  standing  right  over  us.  It  was  armed  with  bombs.  We 
reported  at  Jacksonville  and  again  at  Charleston.  At  Charleston 
the  lightship  had  been  removed  on  account  of  the  submarines. 
We  passed  by  Hatteras  and  there  was  a  light.  In  about  four 
hours  we  got  a  radiogram  saying  the  captain  of  our  ship  was 
to  pick  up  sixteen  survivors  from  the  Carolina.  We  learned 
from  them  that  the  submarines  have  a  wireless  by  which  they 


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pick  up  news  from  all  over  the  world.  They  have  Associated 
Press  news  and  also  pick  up  news  of  baseball  games  and  bet 
on  them.  It  seems  incredible  that  Germans  should  bet  on  the 
baseball  games  of  our  country,  but  they  do  it. 

One  or  two  more  remarks  about  the  life  on  a  submarine.    They 
say  they  live  in  comparative  luxury.    One  thing  the  captain  of  the 


Didn't  liappeti  to  see  anybody  from  '93 
}ixin-piit<5  Ihrougk  one  of  mesolioojoS- 

submarine  said  was  that  whatever  room  they  were  in  they  must 
stay  in,  because  the  submarine  goes  down  at  great  speed  and  the 
sailors  have  to  balance  the  boat.  If  it  is  going  too  much  by  the 
front  the  sailors  run  to  the  back.  From  five  in  the  morning  until 
eleven  they  do  the  most  work,  from  then  on  they  rest  and  at 
night  they  come  up  to  recharge  their  batteries. 

On  our  trip  from  Havana  to  New  York  we  passed  three  sub- 


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marines,  but  we  only  got  notice  of  them  after  we  had  passed 
them,  by  wireless.     (Applause.) 

At  the  conclusion  of  Wilcox's  remarks  America  was  sung  and 
the  formal  session  was  adjourned.  The  party  separated  at  the 
Old  Fence  about  3 :  30  a.  m. 

About  sixty  of  our  men  joined  in  the  Commencement  proces- 
sion and  attended  the  Commencement  exercises  in  Woolsey  Hall 
on  Wednesday  morning.  Honorary  Degrees  were  conferred  as 
follows : 

Masters  of  Arts 

Alfred  Lawrence  Aiken,  '91 

Paul  Wayland  Bartlett 

Henry  Stanford  Brooks,  '85 

Benedict  Crowell,  '91  S. 

Frank  Lyon  Polk,  '94 

Robert  Scoville 

Doctors  of  Science 
Henry  Drysdale  Dakin 
Edward  Sylvester  Morse 

Doctor  of  Letters 
John  Masefield 

Doctors  of  Divinity 
James  Edgar  Gregg,  '03  D. 
Daniel  Sylvester  Tuttle 

Doctors  of  Laws 
Herbert  Clark  Hoover 
William  Renwick  Riddell 
Henry  Pomeroy  Davison 
Rt.  Hon.  Rufus  Daniel  Isaacs,  Viscount  Reading 

Lord  Chief  Justice  of  England  and  British  Ambassador 

The  usual  Alumni  Luncheon  followed  in  the  Dining  Hall. 
The  service  was  by  ladies  of  the  New  Haven  Chapter  of  the 
American  Red  Cross.  After  dinner  President  Hadley  announced 
that  the  threatened  deficit  in  University  income  had  been  met  by 
a  contribution  through  the  Alumni  Fund  of  $502,737.50.  Our 
contribution  of  $15,000  was  exceeded  by  the  Class  of  '78,  which 
gave  $78,000,  and  by  the  Class  of  '76,  but  so  far  as  we  could 
hear,  not  by  any  of  the  other  classes. 

The  other  speakers  were  John  Masefield,  Chief  Justice  Riddell 
of  Canada,  Lord  Reading,  and  ex-President  Taft. 


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The  dinner  concluded  with  the  singing  of  the  Battle  Hymn  of 
the  Republic,  by  Swayne,  the  audience  joining  in  the  refrain. 

With  this  function  formally  ended  the  best  reunion  that  the 
Class  has  held.  About  twenty  men  dined  at  headquarters  in  the 
evening  and  a  few  stragglers  remained  for  breakfast  on  Thursday 
morning, 

Those  who  attended  the  reunion  were: 

Allen,  H.  C,  Allen,  J.  W.,  Avery,  C.  L.,  Barnes,  Bates,  Beadleston, 
Beebe,  Begg,  Bliss,  Boardman,  Borden,  Bristol,  Brownson,  Bull,  Burchard, 
Candee,  Cartwright,  Chisholm,  Clarke,  J.  D.,  Cooke,  Cravens,  Crouse, 
Donnelly,  Dwight,  H.  R.,  Dwight,  W.  E.,  Ewing,  Faxon,  Fay,  Ficken,  Folk, 
Fox,  Gallaudet,  Gatchel,  Goodenough,  Hackett,  Harmstad,  Harvey,  Hast- 
ings, Hay,  Higgins,  Hobbie,  Holbrook,  Hurlbert,  Jepson,  Judson,  Lambert, 
Lamson,  E.  R.,  Lamson,  W.  J.,  Marvin,  Mathison,  Merritt,  Mills,  C.  W., 
Morgan,  Nadler,  Newton,  Parsons,  Peck,  Peirce,  Robinson,  Roby, 
Rogers,  Runk,  Scott,  Scoville,  Sedgwick,  Shaw,  Smith,  Spencer,  Stoeckel, 
Strong,  Sutphen,  Swayne,  Thomas,  Thomson,  Tracy,  Trask,  Wachsman, 
Warnock,  Welles,  L.  A.,  Wheeler,  Wilcox,  Williams,  Woolner,  Wright, 
Yates, — Johnson,  E.  C,  Paine,  Tyler;  85  graduates,  3  non-graduates; 
total  88. 


1     II-  j  V 


THEN  AND  NOW 


ALUMNI    HALL 


Scene  of  so  many  torturous  examinations,  Commencement  Dinners  and  glee  club 
rehearsals,  was  torn  down  in  iqio-ii  to  make  room  for  the  Wright  Memorial 
Hall.    The  towers  have  been  rebuilt  back  of  Skull  and  Bones  by 
G.  D.  Miller,  '7o 


THEN  AND  NOW 

My  dear  Swayne: 

You  were  good  enough  to  want  me  to  tell  something  about 
what  has  happened  to  Yale  since  Ninety-three  were  under- 
graduates, and  it  is  a  pleasure  to  do  it.  Yet  somehow  it  seems 
rash  in  me  to  try  it.  You  men  were  Seniors  when  my  class 
entered  Yale.  I  think  we  all  have  a  peculiar  reverence  for  those 
who  were  in  that  relation  to  us  when  we  were  college  youths. 
But  you  asked  me,  so  here  goes ! 

I  remember,  when  I  was  a  New  Haven  schoolboy  in  the  late 
'Eighties,  strolling  down  Chapel  street  of  a  spring  evening  for 
a  boyish  look  at  the  Yale  Campus,  which  seemed  to  me  to  be  a 
place  apart  from  the  clattering  world  of  affairs  and  which 
someday  I  might  myself  have  a  part  in.  That  must  have  been 
about  the  time  that  Ninety-three  was  entering  college,  a  different 
place, — amazing  how  the  world  moves  along! — from  that  to 
which  our  sons  are  going  to-day. 

You  remember,  as  I  can,  the  Chapel  street  of  that  day.  You 
came  down  from  York,  past  the  delectable  Hillman's,  and  between 
rows  of  old-fashioned  white  houses  close  on  the  sidewalk,  to 
the  ivy-covered  Art  School  and  then  a  long  stretch  of  diamond- 
shaped  rail  fence,  over  which  you  looked  down  the  leafy 
distances  of  the  Old  Campus.  "Hanc  Statuam"  stood  in  the 
middle  of  this  open  space,  where  Vanderbilt  is  now,  and  past 
his  flowing  gown  and  buckled  shoes  you  could  see,  along  High 
street,  the  recently-built  Chittenden  Library,  the  ivy-turreted  Old 
Library,  Dwight  Hall  and  the  gray  uncompromising  bastile  of 
Alumni  Hall,  scene  of  so  many  torturous  examination  hours  and 
Commencement  dinners.  In  the  middle,  under  tall  elms,  was  the 
Treasury  Building,  where  the  patriarchal  and  beloved  Prexy 
had  his  kindly  abode  and  the  courtly-mannered  Treasurer.  I 
think  the  old  Cabinet  Building  must  have  been  standing  then, 
back  of  South  Middle,  though  long  in  disrepair.  They  pulled  it 
down  about  your  time,  and  the  homesick  Freshmen  who  formerly 
had  had  to  climb  to  its  attic  to  read  the  few  out-of-town  news- 
papers the  College  took  in,  thereafter  journeyed  to  the  more 


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■ 


BEFORE  OSBORN   HALL  SPREAD  ITS  BYZANTINE   SQUATNESS  OVER  THAT 
FAMOUS  COLLEGE  CORNER 


spacious  quarters  of  the  north  wing  of  the  Old  Library,  where 
the  peripatetic  custodian,  great  in  Hebrew  learning,  presided, 
watery-eyed,  behind  a  high  desk  near  the  door.  Your  class  came 
to  Yale  just  after  the  Old  Fence  had  passed,  Osborn  Hall  having 
only  recently  spread  its  Byzantine  squatness  over  that  famous 
college  corner.  Osborn  Hall  was  regarded  as  a  remarkable 
architectural  affair  in  those  days  and  visitors  came  to  New  Haven 
especially  to  see  it.  To-day, — so  the  world  changes, — the  Dean 
has  a  fund,  to  which  now  and  then  some  patriotic  modern  visitor 
contributes,  towards  pulling  it  down. 

Most  of  the  buildings  that  were  the  Old  Yale  of  mellow 
memories,  were  standing  in  the  fall  of  1889.  The  Old  Brick 
Row,  that  collection  of  entomological  museums,  as  one  critic 
dubbed  it,  but  to  most  of  us,  I  think,  the  finest  thing  in  Yale's 
outward  investiture  because  it  was  the  oldest,  was  still  there. 
We  of  our  day  knew  well  the  four  long  brick  barrack-like 
dormitories,  high-tiered  Athenaeum,  Lyceum  with  its  quaint  old- 
fashioned  recitation  room  opening  out  under  the  elms,  and  the 
Old  Chapel,  with  its  winding  stairs  and  great  assembly  room, 
where  all  of  the  classes  in  those  days  held  their  meetings  and 
Lit  elections,  and  where,  as  I  remember  it,  a  good  deal  of  quiet 


THEN  AND  NOW 


83 


worldly  wisdom  was  inoculated  into  us  by  the  venerable  Presi- 
dent. We,  at  least,  a  few  years  later,  listened  to  Timothy 
Dwight's  five-o'clock  winter  afternoon  Freshman  lectures  there, 
unless,  youth-like,  we  were  lucky  enough  to  get  onto  the  rear 
benches  where  we  could  read  French  novels  in  the  darkening 
room  that  was  lighted  only  by  the  President's  tiny  lamp  over  his 
manuscript  on  the  reading  desk  below  us.  Overhead  certain 
undergraduates  were  allowed  to  room,  and  they  not  infrequently 
let  down  tattoo  strings  to  tap  against  the  windows  during  those 
sleepy  and  yet,  somehow,  in  retrospect,  inspiring  long  hours.  I 
believe  that  this  sort  of  moral  fatherliness  on  the  part  of  the 
President  has  long  since  disappeared.  The  latter-day  college 
president  is  engrossed  in  the  manifold  affairs  of  a  very  large 
educational  business  and,  while  on  his  infrequent  public  appear- 
ances he  gives  very  sound  and  eloquent  advice  to  the  under- 
graduates, there  is  lacking  that  intimacy  between  the  Freshman 
and  the  head  of  the  institution  that  we  knew  in  Old  Chapel. 

Between  the  buildings  of  the  Old  Brick  Row  ran  sandy  grass- 
less    lanes,    affording    long    slides    in    winter    and    convenient 


BATTELL  FLANKED  BY  DURFEE  AND  FARNAM 


84  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

ambushes  for  unwary  underclassmen  in  fall  and  spring  terms. 
There  occurred  the  famous  Thermopylaes  of  our  day,  when  the 
mettle  of  the  Freshmen  was  tested  by  kicking  and  cuffing  and 
beating  them  through  lanes  of  Sophomores  armed  with  various 
wooden  instruments  of  torture  for  the  occasion.  If  we  all  got 
our  physical  dressing  down  at  those  times  I  think  we  got  some- 
thing else  with  it — the  undergraduates  to-day  who  do  not  have 
any  of  those  barbarous  old-time  rushes  to  undergo  cannot 
have  quite  the  affection  for  the  place  that  was  then  and  there 
pounded  into  us  through  our  epidermis.  Hard  knocks  at  the 
hand  of  traditional  authority  bring  forth  a  loyalty  that  lasts. 

Durfee,  Battell,  Farnam  and  Lawrance,  now  relics  of  the 
middle  architectural  ages  (though  Battell  is  a  good  college  build- 
ing), completed  the  Campus  which  was  "Yale"  in  our  day.  Of 
course  the  Divinity  School  buildings  stood  at  Elm  and  College, 
uptown  replicas  of  the  railroad  station,  and  built  in  the  same 
Early  Pullman  period.  The  Divinity  School  had  a  very  respect- 
able attendance  in  those  days — perhaps  because  there  was  no 
tuition  or  room  rent  for  men  studying  to  be  ministers, — but 
I  do  not  think  that  we  had  a  very  high  opinion  of  them. 
Muscular  Christianity  came  along  a  little  later,  with  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  movement.  The  theologs  of  our  time  did  not  appear  to 
be  very  muscular  and  a  good  many  of  them  wore  low  cut  vests 
and  white  ties,  though  I  have  no  doubt  a  great  many  very  fine 
men  were  among  them.  To-day  the  former  Theological  School 
has  become  a  very  different  institution,  a  School  of  Religion, 
under  a  modern  Faculty  of  believers  in  social  service.  It  trains 
tenement  workers,  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  secretaries,  and  missionaries, 
and  I  believe  is  regarded  as  the  pioneer  in  a  new  type  of  Christian 
ministry.  It  hasn't  as  many  students  now,  but  I  have  a  notion 
that  it  is  doing  a  larger  public  service.  The  Divinity  School  of 
our  time  I  remember  particularly  as  the  scene  of  a  fire  of  vast 
and  spectacular  proportions.  It  was  in  East  Divinity,  the  College 
street  building,  and  the  whole  college  turned  out.  I  raced  down 
to  it  as  a  schoolboy,  to  watch  the  raging  flames  devour  the  attic 
floor  and  to  laugh  with  the  crowd  of  onlookers  at  the  efforts  of 
the  students  to  help  the  firemen  empty  Lake  Whitney  on  the 
blaze.  It  was  the  best  fire  Yale  had  ever  had  and  rivalled  in 
popularity  with  the  students  the  one  this  year  that  destroyed  the 
old  railroad  station. 

The  Divinity  School  buildings  were  outside  of  our  own  Yale. 


THEN  AND  NOW  85 

The  block  on  which  they  stood  had  a  number  of  ancient  home- 
steads on  them,  and  a  tree-embowered  expanse  of  gardens  and 
high  board  fences  within,  the  same  board  fences  contributing  to 
our  bonfires  near  the  Herrick  Oak.  In  your  Senior  year  the 
houses  here  were  torn  down  and  the  beginning  made  on  the 
new  Berkeley  Oval  which  since  has  become  an  upperclass 
dormitory  square.  Afar  off,  occasionally  glimpsed  on  Satur- 
day afternoon  walks  about  town,  one  came  upon  the  outlying 


THE  OLD  LIBRARY,  SOON  TO  BE  USED  FOR  THE  COLLEGE 

The  former  Graduate  School  offices  and  a  portion  of  Peabody  Museum,  seen  to  the  right, 
have  been  razed  to  provide  room  for  the  Memorial  Quadrangle 


and  scattered  brick  and  stucco  buildings  of  Sheff, — a  department 
of  the  University  that  we  knew  little  about  and  the  denizens  of 
which  were  not  usually  of  our  life,  though  I  imagine  that  a  good 
deal  more  solid  work  was  done  there  (judging  from  what  I 
know  of  its  graduates)  even  in  those  days  than  certainly  was 
done  by  us  in  our  Senior  years  in  the  College.  To-day  there 
is  hardly  such  a  cleavage  between  Sheff  and  the  College,  though 
each  retains  its  own  peculiar  social  institutions  that  we  knew. 
So  far  as  the  undergraduates  went,  the  need  of  stalwart  Sheff 
oarsmen  and  football  players  to  uphold  the  University's  athletic 
honors,  when  her  rivals  became  too  strong  for  the  College  to 
handle  alone,  has  tended  to  pull  down  the  old  separating  walls; 
to-day  a  Varsity  captain  is  the  best  man,  regardless  of  whether 
he  is  College  or  Sheff.      The  University  Dining  Hall  also  has 


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WRIGHT  HALL 
Given  by  graduates  in  honor  of  Dean  Wright  and  erected  on  the  site  of  Alumni  Hall 


played  its  part  in  this  social  fusing  of  the  two  departments.  The 
Scientific  School  now  has  the  beginnings  of  a  superb  dormitory 
system  on  the  block  south  of  the  original  Sheff  square,  and  I 
think  in  time  will  be  hardly  distinguishable,  in  her  social  organi- 
zation, from  the  College. 

Structurally,  therefore,  Yale  to-day  is  a  vastly  changed  place 
from  the  single  quadrangle  your  class  found  it  to  be  in  the  fall 
of  '89.  The  Old  Brick  Row,  except  for  Connecticut  Hall,  is 
gone ;  Alumni  Hall  has  been  replaced  by  a  fine  dormitory  built 
in  honor  of  the  late  Dean  Wright ;  a  second  Campus  has  sprung 
into  existence  across  Elm  street;  the  empty  spaces  on  the  Old 
Campus  have  been  filled  in.  A  prodigious  (almost  too  dominat- 
ing) limestone  structure  turns  the  corner  of  Grove  and  College 
streets  with  the  Dining  Hall  and  Woolsey  Hall.  Almost  all  of 
the  land  within  the  logical  confines  of  the  future  University  is 
now  owned  by  Yale  against  the  time  when  it  will  be  needed.  The 
Medical  School  has  moved  from  York  street  over  to  the  New 
Haven  Hospital  grounds,  where  it  is  beginning  a  new  career  as 
a  great  American  professional  school  on  an  adequate  endow- 
ment. Sheff  since  1893  has  slowly  elbowed  her  way  out 
Prospect  street  and  across  Hillhouse  avenue,  and  down  College 
street.  The  University  itself,  putting  into  concrete  form  its 
policy  of  combination  scientific  workshops  for  all  departments, 
has  bought  the  enormous  tract  of  the  Hillhouse  Place,  and  has 
already  begun  there  what  will  eventually  become  a  scientific 
laboratory  center.     Various  institutions,  new  to  returning  visi- 


THEN  AND  NOW  87 


tors  of  our  day,  have  sprung  up  around  the  University.  A  new 
Senior  club,  the  Elihu,  has  moved  into  the  old  Revolutionary- 
times  house  next  to  the  Law  School  on  Elm  street;  a  Music 
School  building  has  been  erected  on  the  site  of  President 
Dwight's  former  College  street  home ;  new  ShefT  society  houses, 
and  beautiful  ones,  have  appeared;  The  Elizabethan  Club,  a 
University  book-collectors'  rendezvous  for  the  literary  under- 
graduates of  both  departments,  and  the  possessor  of  one  of  the 
finest  private  libraries  in  America,  stands  on  College  street  near 
Wall ;  The  Yale  University  Press,  one  of  the  many  activities  of 
Yale's  many-sided  and  constructive  Treasurer,  George  Day,  has 
a  house  opposite  the  Elizabethan  Club, — its  publications  have 
put  the  University  in  the  forefront  of  American  productive 
scholarship,  and  the  Press  itself  at  the  head  of  American  pub- 
lishers who  believe  in  good  printing;  on  High  street,  in  one 
of  the  square  brick  boarding  houses  of  our  time,  the  Yale 
Publishing  Association  produces  the  Alumni  Weekly  (which 
your  class  secretary  had  a  good  deal  to  do  with  establishing  in 
your  Junior  year  and  of  which  he  was  an  editor)  and  The  Yale 
Review.  This  last  named  publication  (I  am  only  the  publisher 
of  it,  so  I  am  not  expected  to  be  modest  in  its  praises)  is  one  of 
the  most  important  intellectual  enterprises,  with  the  Press,  that 
Yale  has  seen  begun  since  our  time.  It  has  given  the  Yale  name 
to  a  national  literary  and  public  affairs  review  of  the  first  grade 
and  every  Ninety-three  man  ought  to  be  a  heeler  of  it. 

But  this  is  not  all  that  has  changed  or  is  changing.  Until  just 
before  the  War,  which  has  temporarily  upset  everything  every- 
where, the  most  insistent  need  of  the  College  was  more  room  for 
the  undergraduates.  In  the  'Nineties  we  roomed  on  the  Campus 
if  we  could,  and  anywhere  else  we  happened  to  if  we  couldn't. 
The  result  was  that  a  lot  of  men  lived  in  private  dormitories, 
like  the  Hutch'  and  the  York  street  houses,  and  that  a  condition 
seemed  likely  to  develop  that  would  not  be  in  line  with  Yale  demo- 
cratic traditions.  The  College  authorities  ended  this,  by  build- 
ing more  dormitories  and  by  taking  over  the  private  ones.  But 
even  this  did  not  solve  the  question, — more  dormitory  room  was 
still  needed.  It  will  be  one  of  the  greatest  events  in  the  Deanship 
of  Dean  Jones  when  the  new  Memorial  Quadrangle,  to  be  built 
in  memory  of  Charles  W.  Harkness,  '83,  by  Mrs.  Stephen  V. 
Harkness  of  New  York,  is  finished.  This  amazing  project  is 
now  just  started.     To  prepare  for  it,  the  entire  block  where  the 


88  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Peabody  Museum  stood  and  the  Old  Gym  and  Pierson  Hall,  has 
been  razed.  Here,  eventually,  will  rise  the  towers  and  stone 
buildings  of  what  may  well  be  the  finest  college  quadrangle  in 
America.  The  change  has  resulted  in  a  new  University  heating 
plant  on  York  street  and  Grove,  and  the  coming  construction  of 
a  new  Peabody  Museum  on  the  Pierson-Sage  Square.  At  Com- 
mencement this  year  another  noble  gift  to  Yale,  this  time  from 
William  L.  Harkness,  '8i,  was  announced.  This  will  be  a  new 
College  recitation  building  which  will  go  up,  after  the  War,  on 
the  site  of  the  present  Dwight  Hall  on  the  Old  Campus.  One  of 
the  most  pressing  questions  at  the  University  in  recent  years 
has  been  the  wise  decision  regarding  the  ultimate  plans  for  the 
University  Library.  Begun  on  the  Old  Campus,  when  Chitten- 
den was  built  in  your  day,  the  problem  had  become  a  serious  one 
whether  it  was  wise  to  continue  it  down  the  High  street  side 
of  the  Campus,  where  even  then  the  space  possible  for  it  would 
not  be  sufficiently  large  for  the  purpose.  The  coming  Harkness 
recitation  building  has  precipitated  the  necessary  decision  to 
remove  the  Library  to  some  other  site  and  give  over  the  whole 
Old  Campus,  as  is  proper,  to  the  College  alone.  The  plans,  there- 
fore, are  for  the  ultimate  use  of  perhaps  a  whole  new  city  block 
near  the  Campus  for  the  great  University  Library  that  the  present 
Librarian,  Mr.  Andrew  Keogh,  has  the  vision  to  see  in  the  future; 
the  transformation  of  Chittenden  and  Linsly  Library  Halls  to 
College  use;  and  the  making  over  of  the  Old  Library,  which 
long  has  been  closed  to  the  undergraduates,  into  a  place  where 
they  may  have  their  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  their  grill,  their  Linonia  and 
Brothers  Library  back  again  where  they  can  step  into  it  from  the 
Campus,  their  newspaper  reading  room  and  debating  and  glee 
club  quarters.  After  the  War,  these  fine  things  are  to 
materialize,  as  the  gifts  for  them,  excepting  for  the  new  Library, 
are  in  hand.  And  as  I  write  these  lines,  Yale  men  everywhere 
are  thrilled  by  the  munificence  of  the  will  of  the  late  John  W. 
Sterling,  '64,  whose  residuary  estate,  estimated  at  this  writing 
at  around  thirteen  millions,  comes  at  once  to  Yale  and  may  likely 
not  only  build  the  Library  but  numerous  other  structures  and 
found  professorships  and  establish  a  multitude  of  things  that 
the  University  needs  and  has  been  dreaming  of. 

These  building  changes  have  brought  about  a  new  Yale  for 
the  returning  graduate  of  the  'Nineties,  and  there  have  been 
changes,  also,  in  their  daily  routine  that  the   students   live  in 


THEN  AND  NOW 


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them.  I  have  spoken  of  the  new  University  Dining  Hall,  where 
we  have  our  Alumni  Dinners  at  Commencements  instead  of  in  the 
tent  outside  of  the  Alumni  Hall  of  our  times.  Twelve  hundred 
undergraduates  of  both  departments,  eat  there  daily.  Sunday 
Chapel,  compulsory  for  us,  is  optional  between  two  succeeding 
services,  in  Battell  and  Woolsey  Hall.  The  College  Choir  is  a 
real  affair  nowadays,  thanks  to  that  gifted  classmate  of  yours 
who  has  done  so  much  to  give  Yale  a  reputation  throughout 
the  musical  world,  and  whose  organ  recitals  are  an  event  for  a 
much  wider  circle  than  the  New  Haven  music-loving  public.  A 
good  many  of  us  wouldn't  last  long,  with  our  raucous  voices, 
in  the  College  Choir  nowadays.  And  it  would  not  be  possible 
to-day  for  any  rapscallion  choir  to  conspire  together  to  haze  an 
offensively  chesty  tenor,  as  we  did,  and,  when  the  tenors'  turn 
came  to  answer  in  unison  the  basses'  query,    "Who  is  the  Lord 


FROM   VANDERBILT  COURT 

Ivy-covered  since  our  day,  the  open  Campus  now  extends  to  Durfee,  the 
Treasury  Building  long  since  having  disappeared 


9o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

God  Almighty?"    let  that  self-satisfied  individual  unexpectedly 
bawl  out  all  by  himself  that  it  was  he. 

The  Campus,  when  Ninety-three  were  Freshmen,  had  an  open 
space  between  Lawrance  and  Osborn  Halls  (Welch  and  Phelps 
Halls  were  to  come  later)  double  elm-lined  and  open  to  the 
avaricious  hack  stand  on  College  street,  through  which  the  fortu- 
nate residents  in  South  Middle  and  North  Middle  could  look 
down  across  the  Green  and  thus  in  timely  season  avoid  missing 
their  belated  part  in  the  underclass  riots  that  not  infrequently 
surged  up  from  the  downtown  theatres.  Prokaski's  Yale  Hotel 
(where  the  Freshmen  got  beer  shampoos)  was  on  Center  street, 
and  Traeger's  was  on  Chapel.  There  we  drank  to  the  lady's 
health  and  then  magnificently  smashed  the  glass  in  the  open  fire- 
place when  a  classmate's  engagement  was  dragged  out  of  him. 
Traeger's  had  a  rather  dreary  sawdust-floored  bar  below  the  street 
level  and  an  excellent  grill  upstairs  that  you  went  up  to  from 
the  street  by  a  high  stone  staircase  that  had  a  convenient  baluster 
on  either  side  for  the  return  journey.  Then  there  was  Billy's, 
of  mammoth  egg-on-toast  fame,  up  on  Park  street  near  the 
engine  house,  and  Mory's  of  ale-laden  atmosphere  and  round 
tables  that  you  carved  your  initials  on,  on  Temple.  These 
college  taverns  of  our  day  have  long  since  departed,  though 
Mory's  has  miraculously  translated  itself  to  York  street  and 
there  strives  to  keep  up  the  traditions  of  good  fellowship  and 
college  atmosphere  that  it  had  in  its  downtown  days.  You  would 
think  yourself  back  in  the  old  Temple  Bar  if  you  dropped  in 
there  to-day;  there  are  the  same  doors  and  windows,  the  same 
fireplaces,  it  seems,  and  tables  and  chairs  and  piles  of  dusty  Lits 
and  Banners  on  the  mantelpiece,  and  certainly  the  same  old 
German  gentleman,  in  a  wooden  nightcap  reading  a  wooden 
book  which  we  may  hope  is  not  Pangermanic,  and  the  identical 
championship  oars  and  all  the  old  prints  and  other  things  on 
the  walls.  But  the  undergraduate  has  not  followed  there  in 
large  numbers.  Some  of  us  drop  in  now  and  then  for  a  chop 
and  mug  of  Burton  after  the  manner  of  the  aged  at  the  end 
of  a  winter  afternoon  constitutional.  But  the  undergraduate — 
certainly  the  drinking  undergraduate — of  a  former  generation 
has  passed,  as  indeed  American  life  outside  of  college  has 
changed  in  that  particular,  and  drinking  is  now  casual  and,  from 
what  the  grill  keepers  say,  hardly  pays  the  bartenders  for  serving 
it.     I  do  not  wish  to  infer  that  in  the  early  'Nineties  we  all  were 


THEN  AND  NOW 


9* 


topers,  because  we  were  not ;  but  there  was  much  freer  and  more 
general  downtown  drinking  in  that  decade  than  there  is  in  this, 
and  such  as  there  was  absorbed  itself  in  the  undergraduate  code 
much  more  naturally  than  it  would  to-day.  Speaking  of  the  last 
normal  period  at  Yale,  two  years  or  more  ago,  the  almost  com- 
plete absence  of  carousing  in  the  College  was  one  of  the  most 
striking  things  to  a  casual  dropper-in  of  the  old  traditions.  The 
whole  code  of  manners  (for  the  matter  is  one  of  manners  rather 
than  of  morals  in  undergraduate  life)  has  swung  over  onto 
a  cleaner  and  more  polished  plane.  A  recent  newcomer  to  the 
Faculty,  who  knew  English  and  Canadian  college  life,  came  to 
me  after  he  had  been  at  Yale  a  few  months,  to  express  his  sur- 
prise at  the  sobriety  and  morality  of  the  Yale  undergraduate 
body;  from  experiences  elsewhere  (even  in  this  country)  he 
had  expected  quite  another  thing.  I  was  not  wise  enough  to 
tell  him  why  this  was  so,  though  I  knew  that  it  was.  Perhaps 
it  is  the  reflection  in  college,  of  the  undoubtedly  higher  plane  of 
manners  to  which  America  in  general  has  risen  since  our  college 
days.  I  found  that  new  Faculty  man,  discovering  Yale  for  the 
first  time,  had  the  idea  that  athletics  and  class  lines  and  the 


THE  NEWBERRY  ORGAN  IN  WOOLSEY  HALL  IS  THE  LARGEST  IN  THE  WORLD 

The  Hall,  accommodating  3000  people,  is  the  center  for  musical  events  in  New  Haven, 
and  Jepson  has  made  himself  and  the  organ  famous 


92  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


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THE       AVARICIOUS    HACK   STAND       HAS  BEEN   REPLACED  BY  TAXIS   AND  JITNEYS 

senior  societies  had  had  a  good  deal  to  do  with  it.  He  had  not 
found  those  characteristic  Yale  things  so  pronounced  at  other 
colleges,  just  as  he  had  found  them  to  be  entirely  missing,  in  the 
American  sense,  in  Canada  and  England. 

What  I  say,  therefore,  is  that  the  kaleidoscope  of  modern  life 
outside  of  the  college  has  wheeled  the  old  carefree  drinking  and 
careless  morals  out  of  the  modern  Yale  and  brought  in  a  more 
quiet  and  self-contained  era  in  which  those  things  have  lost  the 
old  appeal.  But  I  do  not  mean  by  this  that  Yale  life  to-day  is 
any  the  less  joyous  on  that  account.  On  the  contrary,  I  am 
quite  sure  that  it  is  a  much  better  college  life,  just  as  I  am  sure 
that  our  sons  are  better  fellows  than  their  fathers !  We  were 
not  over-fine  in  our  feelings,  perhaps ;  we  came  at  the  end  of 
the  Homeric  period  at  Yale,  of  crude  living  conditions  and 
athletic  prowess  and  segregation  from  the  world  outside  and 
aloofness  from  other  departments  of  the  University  and  a  nar- 
row and  prescribed  curriculum.  Your  class  came  into  a 
provincial  Yale,  compared  with  what  it  is  to-day,  when  the 
things  we  liked  to  do  were  a  part  with  the  life  we  lived  in  the 
century-old  barracks  and  with  the  simple  intellectual  fare  we 
received  in  the  classrooms  from  the  small  and  tradition-bound 
Faculty  of  that  day.  I  recall,  as  can  you,  our  class  rushes  and 
the  Campus  fracases  with  the  Sophomores  and  the  downtown 


THEN  AND  NOW 


93 


riots  in  Bunnell's  Grand  Opera  House  and  occasional  dance  halls. 
There  was  a  theatre  way  down  Chapel  street  (Proctor's  New 
Haven  Opera  House  it  was — I  had  nearly  forgotten  the  name), 
that  had  a  portable  ticket  office  in  the  lobby  in  which  an  anaemic 
young  man  in  a  pink  tie  sold  us  peanut-gallery  tickets ;  it,  and 
the  anaemic  young  man  inside,  frequently  went  along  with  us 
into  the  street  as  we  came  out.  That  sort  of  rough-house  hasn't 
been  so  frequent — I  was  going  to  say  possible — at  Yale  in  later 
days.  There  are  fewer  theatres,  and  moving-picture  places  have 
sprung  up,  as  everywhere,  in  scores  all  over  the  city.  The  under- 
graduates patronize  these  very  extensively,  in  droves  daily.  It 
is  a  pretty  poor  substitute,  even  for  the  kind  of  thing  we  used 
to  see,  I  think ;  but  it  has  seemed  to  dissipate  the  undergraduate 
night  prowling  about  the  city,  just  as  the  single  occasional  show 
of  our  day  seemed  to  centralize  it.  A  score  or  so  underclass- 
men, strolling  out  from  a  moving-picture  place  of  an  evening, 
and  rubbing  shoulders,  probably,  with  New  Haven  graduates 
and  their  families  that  they  know,  or  even  with  an  instructor  or 
two,  haven't  the  opportunity  or  the  youthful  desire  to  explode 
that  the  three  or  four  hundred  of  us  pounding  out  of  the  theatre 
used   to   feel   and   generally   exercise.      Perhaps    the   emotional 


SENIOR  DAYS  SEEM  FAR  AWAY  TO  US  NOW 


94  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

heights  to  which  he  has  been  raised  by  the  movies  has  something 
to  do  with  the  modern  undergraduate's  lack  of  nocturnal  ginger. 
The  stored-up  energies  of  a  week's  Campus  monotony  have 
been  displaced  by  a  continuous  daily  sapping  of  his  manly  powers. 
Strong  men  who  have  wept  over  a  movie  heroine's  two-hour 
plight,  have  no  strength  left  with  which  to  assault  the  populace 
afterwards. 

If  the  downtown  precincts  are  thus  more  quiet  to-day,  so  far 
as  college  disturbances  go,  the  Campus  itself  is  hardly  less  so. 
The  Freshman  Rush  has  long  since  departed,  just  as  have  the 
Campus  celebrations  of  athletic  victories,  at  least  on  the  magnifi- 
cently unforgettable  scale  we  knew.  The  two  lower  classes 
now  carry  on  what  shadowy  rivalry  they  have,  in  a  very  orderly 
manner.  I  believe  they  have  joint  committee  meetings  before 
one  of  these  surviving  traditions  of  our  day  is  to  be  carried  out. 
These  committees  map  out  a  program  and  the  News  prints 
editorials  urging  the  Freshmen  and  Sophomores  to  be  in  town 
for  the  occasion  and  to  show  some  class  spirit.  Then  they  have 
a  parade  on  the  Old  Campus  and  go  through  a  mummery  of 
what  we  did  in  our  day,  and  possibly  have  a  tug-o'-war.  I  sup- 
pose they  wonder  just  what  it  was  that  we  old  fellows  used  to 
find  in  a  Fence  Rush  to  interest  us.  The  Sheff  Freshmen  appear 
to-day  to  be  the  last  survivors  of  our  cruder  days  in  these 
respects.  They  occasionally  burst  forth,  but  the  College  senti- 
ment is  against  over-doing  it,  and  the  New  Haven  public  has 
very  decidedly  come  to  the  conclusion  that  such  affairs  are  public 
nuisances,  as  they  properly  are.  All  of  which  illustrates  the 
change  in  undergraduate  public  relations  since  our  day.  I  am 
not  sure  that  even  a  Phelps  Battalion  would  bring  out  the  men 
to-day  as  it  brought  us  out,  pell-mell  down  the  dormitory  entries, 
in  that  Cleveland  campaign  of  '92,  when  you  were  Seniors  and 
my  class  were  Freshmen.  You  recall  that  affair.  I*  remember 
jostling  through  High  street  that  torch-lit  night  (you  got  your 
torches  at  Ratner's  on  Chapel  street  and  your  kerosene  from  the 
nearest  residents  to  the  Campus),  and  scrambling  over  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  lot  fence  to  where,  in  a  hurrahing 
throng  of  upperclassmen,  your  own  class  secretary  (who  got  me 
into  this  rambling  paper  that  I'm  trying  to  finish,  but  find  diffi- 
culty in  doing  so,  so  many  memories  crowd  in  on  me  as  I  write), 
massive  and  dominating  the  bedlam  with  his  clarion  voice,  was 
giving  out  mortar-boards  and  cambric  gowns  for  the  Republican 


THEN  AND  NOW 


95 


Party  street  parade  to  escort  "Our  Chauncey"  and  some  lesser 
dignitaries  to  the  Hyperion.  We  all  marched  in  it,  I  remember, 
and   were   duly   rotten-egged   in   the   downtown   streets   of   the 


Democratic  wards,  through  which  we  quite  as  enthusiastically 
paraded  the  next  night  (shall  I  confess  it),  in  the  Democratic 
column,  to  receive  glasses  of  very  poor  beer  from  the  same 
populace  that  the  evening  before  had  mobbed  us.     The  under- 


96  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

graduate  hasn't  done  anything  like  that  since  then,  so  far  as  I 
can  remember.  But  that  is  only  another  instance  of  what  I 
have  said  before, — the  American  people,  from  whom  these  boys 
come,  hasn't  either.  Again,  in  such  an  instance  as  this,  the 
reflection  of  the  outside  world  is  seen  on  the  Campus. 

Much  the  same  sort  of  thing  has  become  true  of  the  under- 
graduate and  his  athletics.  We  were  in  the  heyday  of  these 
when  Ninety-three  was  in  College,  and  when  Ninety-six  was, 
until  Harvard  wouldn't  play  with  us  any  more  because  some- 
body's nose  got  bitten  in  that  last  and  most  glorious  of  all  foot- 
ball games  at  Springfield.  I  suppose  we  did  bite  people's  noses 
off  in  those  days  for  the  honor  of  our  university  and  break  their 
legs  and  collar-bones  and  roughhouse  them  on  general  principles. 
But  we  were  not  alone  in  that.  It  was  the  American  way  of 
doing  things.  Big  business  was  battle  in  the  outside  world; 
athletics  was  our  business.  They  obsessed  us,  possessed  us,  and 
were  our  reflection  of  that  battle,  all  in  a  very  normal  and 
healthy  way,  I  think,  but  altogether  more  than  they  have  our 
successors.  I  think  that  a  great  many  graduates  miss  this  lack 
in  the  modern  undergraduates,  and  do  not  understand  it.  But  it 
is  not  difficult  to  understand.  We  lived  in  a  pretty  small  college 
world,  and  our  life  in  it  was  the  more  intense  because  it  was  a 
small  world.  We  did  not  have  automobiles  to  play  with,  there 
were  not  so  many  convenient  trains  to  New  York,  nor  did  we 
have  the  money  to  spend  in  New  York  if  we  got  there.  We  did 
not  have  the  distractions  from  Campus  life  that  our  successors 
have.  So  we  did  very  hard  what  we  found  to  do,  and  athletics 
were  the  most  natural  vent  for  those  energies.  In  this  particular 
the  University  has  paid  the  price  of  being  a  larger  and  more 
diffused  kind  of  place  than  we  knew  it.  Also  the  classes  are 
larger,  and  this  makes  for  lessened  interest  in  what  each  of  us 
is  doing.  But,  also,  I  think  the  general  trend  of  American  col- 
lege sports  has  had  a  good  deal  to  do  with  the  changed  condi- 
tions. Yale  was  the  leader  in  football  and  rowing  in  our  times ; 
we,  almost  alone,  knew  the  trick.  Since  then  dozens  of  small 
colleges  have  learned  it,  and  come  to  New  Haven  quite  often 
able  to  hold  or  even  beat  Yale  teams  that  formerly  swept  the 
field  with  all  comers.  Athletic  preeminence  has  passed  from  the 
hands  of  a  small  group  of  specialized  places  and  become  dis- 
tributed among  all  of  them.  This  has  let  down  the  excitement 
at  Yale  over  athletic  successes.     And  the  enormous  development 


THEN  AND  NOW 


97 


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ONE    OF    BOB    COOKS    CREWS 

(The  old  Boathouse  on  East  Chapel  Street  is  now  gone  and  the  crews  are  trained  at  a  new 
one  across  the  river,  which  temporarily  is  a  U.  S.  Navy  Training  Station) 


of  college  sports  in  a  financial  way  has  also  had  its  deteriorating 
effect  on  the  undergraduates'  interest  in  them.  We  knew  nothing 
of  professional  coaching  as  it  is  practiced  to-day.  We  had  only 
comparatively  small  attendances  at  the  games.  To  a  considerable 
extent  we  had  no  general  public  following  them,  certainly  not  as 
is  the  case  to-day.  When  we  piled  out  in  droves  to  a  football 
game  at  Yale  Field,  it  was  our  game  that  we  went  to.  Now, 
seated  in  the  Bowl,  with  seventy  thousand  people  all  around  us, 
we  go  to  a  huge  American  athletic  spectacle.  In  the  old  days 
we  did  our  own  forecasting  of  the  outcomes,  and  knew  our 
players  because  they  were  our  classmates  or  upperclass  friends. 
To-day  the  sporting  pages  of  the  metropolitan  newspapers  advise 
the  paid  coaches  what  they  should  do,  the  players  are  likely  as 
not  to  be  unknown  new  men  from  another  department  or  "finds" 
among  the  horde  of  unknown  youths  in  the  College  itself.  The 
old  personal  interest  has  gone.  The  modern  undergraduate  has 
lost  touch  with  his  University  team  because  the  place  has  become 
so  big  and  the  public  has  become  so  interested  that  it  isn't  any 
more  his  own  team  that  he  is  going  out  to  see.  I  sat  with  a 
youthful  News  editor  at  a  recent  Yale-Harvard  game ;  he  could 
not  tell  me  the  names  of  half  of  the  twenty  or  more  Yale  sub- 
stitutes as  they  trotted  out  to  be  successively  annihilated  by  one 
of  Harvard's  best-coached  championship  elevens.  He  got  into 
the  frenzied  cheers  that  followed  some  good  play  down  below,  but 


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The  old  Football  Field,  where  Homeric  combats  took  place  in  the  Nineties  and  where 

we  had  a  personal  interest  in  our  teams  that  the  modern  undergraduate  lacks 

when  he  goes  to  the  Bowl 


was  not  at  all  abashed  when  it  turned  out  to  be  a  Harvard  end 
run  that  scored.  I  think,  for  one,  that  our  college  athletics  have 
all  been  going  the  wrong  way  in  the  last  decade  or  so.  There 
has  been  too  much  money  spent,  there  is  too  much  coaching, 
they  are  too  big.  I  liked  the  old  wooden  benches  of  Yale  Field, 
and  the  small  college  crowds  that  you  felt  yourself  a  part  of, 
more  than  I  do  the  modern  huge  spectacles.  The  undergraduate, 
who  did  not  know  the  Yale  sports  we  knew,  feels  this  and  does 
not  know  the  reason  why.  It  would  be  a  very  good  thing  if  we 
could  put  them  back,  as  far  as  possible,  on  their  former  less 
public  basis.  Or  is  it,  merely,  if  one  of  us  hoary  old  grads  feels 
that  way,  that  it  shows  that  he  is  growing  older? 

I  am  making  this  reply  to  your  request  for  something  about 
the  changes  that  have  taken  place  at  Yale  since  your  and  my 
time  in  College,  longer  than  I  had  intended  to  or  you  may  want. 
But  there  is  a  good  deal  to  say, — a  good  deal  more  to  say,  that 
we  are  all  interested  in  knowing  about,  than  you  will  want  me 
to  take  space  saying.  But  I  cannot  end,  without  a  word  about 
the  things  that  are  happening  at  the  University  which  are  of  a 
good  deal  more  moment,  I  think,  than  even  the  material  develop- 
ment and  the  undergraduate  changes  I  have  been  discussing. 


THEN  AND  NOW  99 

The  University  to-day  has  a  good  deal  larger  mission  to  ful- 
fill in  American  life  than  it  had,  or  imagined,  in  the  Nineties. 
It  is  sensing  that  broadened  opportunity  and  is  in  a  fair  way 
to  realize  the  obligation  it  entails.  This  is  a  large  subject,  and 
I  cannot  do  more  than  hit  the  high  spots  in  touching  on  it.  You 
can  all  fill  in  the  gaps  that  I  shall  have  to  bridge  as  I  do  it. 

You,  and  I,  were  in  college  in  a  period  which  was,  as  we  can 
clearly  enough  see  it  now,  toward  the  end  of  an  era  in  American 
life  and  American  higher  education.  The  outside  world  of 
affairs  was  in  the  heyday  of  that  industrial  period  which  followed 
the  Civil  War  and  which  so  rapidly  developed  the  country  finan- 
cially and  productively.  It  was  a  world  that  was  so  engrossed 
in  making  its  way  that  it  did  not  have  the  time  to  stop  and  think 
about  the  way  it  was  going ;  it  was  in  a  good  deal  of  a  scramble 
to  make  money  and  thereby  get  the  power  that  money  can  bring. 
It  was  a  world  that  smiled  at  theoretical  dreamers  who  believed 
in  running  the  government  as  a  democracy  and  on  scientific 
principles,  that  had  little  use  for  the  colleges,  and  the  leaders  of 
which  felt  no  necessity  for  looking  ahead  a  bit  and  preparing 
for  trouble.  We  do  not  seriously  blame  these  men  now;  we 
know  that  that  period  could  not  have  been  different  and  that  it 
was  not  yet  time  for  American  life  to  consolidate  the  ground  it 
had  gained  and  build  for  the  future.  But  the  War  has  suddenly 
brought  us  to  a  realization  that  we  cannot  go  ahead  on  that  line 
any  longer.  A  totally  new  problem  lies  ahead  of  us,  of  recon- 
structing our  whole  national  life  and  thought,  so  that  we  may 
not  only  build  up  a  strong  and  self-supporting  nation,  but  take 
our  place  as  perhaps  the  leader  in  modern  democratic  civilization. 
In  this  effort  every  constructive  factor  in  our  American  life  must 
have  its  part;  the  universities  not  the  least. 

That  is,  the  place  of  an  institution  such  as  Yale  in  the  American 
national  reconstruction  that  is  to  follow  the  War  is  bound  to  be 
a  very  important  place  indeed.  A  university  like  Yale  must  be 
able  to  contribute  to  the  country  an  intellectual  leadership  which 
it  was  not  called  upon  to  give  until  now.  The  new  era  is  to  be 
founded  upon  the  application  of  modern  science  to  human 
affairs, — the  universities  must  be  the  nation's  laboratories  for 
such  sciences,  and  the  men  who  train  there  must  go  forth  to 
apply  their  knowledge  practically  to  this  end.  The  new  era  is 
to  form  its  public  policies  on  the  scientific  principles  of  human 
intercourse, — the  universities  must  give  us  those  principles  and 


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mould  its  students  on  them  so  that  they  may  go  out  and  apply 
them  in  the  politics  and  government  of  the  country.  The  new 
era  cannot  be  one  of  secluded  provincialism,  it  must  see  America 
take  its  place  as  one  of  the  world  nations  and  world  leaders, — 
the  universities  must  supply  something  at  least  of  that  broader 
world  feeling  and  acquaintance  with  what  the  world  outside  has 
done  and  is  doing,  its  culture  must  be  broader  and  more  useful. 
America,  if  it  is  to  cope  with  the  problem  before  it,  must 
recognize  that  in  its  thinkers  and  scientific  discoverers  it  has  a 
force  which  it  must  harness  to  the  public  life.  Out  of  the  uni- 
versities must  come  the  higher  thinking  that  we  shall  need  to 
put  into  national  practice  if  we  are  to  succeed  in  the  new  times. 

How  is  Yale,  our  Yale  that  we  are  so  loyal  to,  prepared  to 
step  out  of  the  secluded  corner  of  its  traditional  past  and  take 
a  hand  in  this  novel  and  very  important  American  business. 

I  am  glad  to  be  able  to  say  that  not  only  is  the  organization 
of  the  place  already  so  far  along  toward  consolidation  and  effi- 
cient management  that  it  will  be  able  to  do  its  part  when  the 
time  arrives,  but  that  the  realization  of  the  opportunity  so  per- 
meates the  forward  thinking  of  its  leaders,  both  Faculty  and 
graduate,  that  it  will  be  ready.  An  enormous  change  has  come 
upon  the  University,  educationally,  since  our  time.  For  one  thing, 
it  is  to-day  almost,  not  quite  as  yet,  a  consolidated  and  centralized 
unit  instead  of  the  loose  association  of  unrelated  departments  that 
it  was  in  the  'Nineties.*  I  have  spoken  of  the  seclusion  which 
we  felt  from  the  rest  of  the  place.  That  has  gone.  The  College 
is  one  spoke  in  the  wheel,  if  still  the  most  important  spoke,  and 
not  the  whole  place.  The  University  is  moving  along  as  a  whole. 
In  our  day  we  knew,  only  by  hearsay,  if  we  knew  them  at  all, 
the  professors  in  the  other  departments.  The  demarcation  in 
the  Faculties  was  vertical,  divided  by  departments.  To-day  a 
beginning  has  been  made  toward  consolidating  the  teaching  forces 
in  the  different  departments  ("Schools,"  they  are  now  called) 
along  the  line  of  the  subjects  they  teach.  This  has  been  done  in 
chemistry  this  year.  It  will  shortly  be  done  in  one  or  two  more 
subjects.  Eventually  it  will  be  done  in  all.  Sheff  and  College 
students  will  thus  have  a  common  Faculty,  and  take  their  work 
in  either  place  as  the  occasion  demands.  The  horizontal  Faculty 
policy  which  has  been  devised  by  the  new  Dean  of  the  Graduate 

*  Since  this  was  written  the  University  has  been  reorganized  on  modern 
lines  by  the  Corporation. 


THEN  AND  NOW 


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School  for  that  department,  will  shortly  become  the  policy  of 
the  whole  institution.  Financially,  the  University,  except  for 
some  of  the  Sheff  funds,  and  a  trusteeship  or  two  like  Peabody 
Museum's,  is  being  handled  as  a  whole.*  Alumni  Fund  givers 
give  to  the  whole  University  on  this  larger  plan,  rather  than  to 
keep  alive  the  old  differences  and  separations  that  are  no  longer 
possible  or  forward-looking.     The  University  is  building  Univer- 


THE   ART    SCHOOL   AND    CHITTENDEN    LIBRARY   OF   OUR   TIME    UNCHANGED 
TO-DAY    EXCEPT    FOR    AN    ENLARGEMENT    OF    THE    FORMER    BUILDING 


*  Note:  The  financial  development  of  the  University  since  1893  has  been 
even  more  striking  than  the  other  changes  here  discussed.  In  1892-3  the 
total  funds  of  the  University  were  $4,000,000;  this  year,  exclusive  of  the 
great  Sterling  and  other  bequests  since  June  30,  1918,  they  are  $22,000,000. 


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sity  laboratories  rather  than  departmental  ones.  In  a  short  time 
it  should  be  possible,  as  it  is  now  being  considered,  to  reorganize 
where  necessary  so  that  there  should  be  no  further  duplication 
of  equipment  or  teaching  force.  That  is,  Yale  is  reorganizing 
for  its  coming  part  in  the  nation's  leadership. 

But  that  leadership  will  be  intellectual.  What  is  Yale  doing 
to  meet  the  new  needs  of  the  times  in  that  all  important  particu- 
lar. In  the  first  place,  speaking  now  of  the  College,  the  educa- 
tion given  is  vastly  broader  than  it  was  in  our  day.  We  gave  two 
years  to  a  prescribed  course  in  the  traditional  three  R's  of 
college  education,  and  then  had  a  little  leeway  in  the  two  last 
years,  though  we  had  to  have  certain  philosophic  courses  which 
the  philosophy  professors  had  been  able  to  save  from  the  down- 
fall of  the  old  system.  Since  then  the  College  has  gone  through 
a  long  period  of  experiment  with  the  partial  elective  system,  to 
come  out  of  it  on  an  entirely  new  theory,  which  the  experience 
of  the  military  courses  since  we  entered  the  War  has  shown  to 
have  in  it  the  most  useful  possibilities,  that  theory  being  the 
group  system  of  studies  for  men  of  varying  types  of  mind, 
the  course  in  them  to  be  prescribed  when  chosen.  Sheff  has  had 
this  system ;  the  College  is  coming  to  it.  Again,  we  were  driven 
through  the  traditional  classical  education  that  had  come  down 
to  us  from  the  ages.  We  entered  on  Prep-school  Latin  and 
Greek,  we  had  both  in  college.  The  field  of  human  thought  has 
amazingly  broadened  since  our  day,  however,  and  this  condition 
does  not  exist  to-day.  A  boy  does  not  need  Greek  to  enter  Yale 
now;  he  can  drop  Latin  on  entering.  One  of  these  days  Latin 
will  not  be  longer  required  to  get  in.  In  the  new  education,  if 
four  years  of  Latin  remain  essential  in  a  rounded  culture,  as 
most  of  us  still  believe  they  do,  they  will  not  necessarily  be  the 
first  four  years  of  the  eight  from  Prep-school  matriculation  to 
college  graduation.  In  the  college  course  itself,  the  trend,  since 
the  War  began  and  for  some  time  before  it,  has  been  unmis- 
takably toward  the  use  of  the  four  short  years  to  prepare  the 
undergraduates  for  the  broader  mental  life  that  modern  times 
have  brought  about,  as  compared  with  our  time.  The  traditional 
classical  course  has  long  since  given  way  to  a  broader  curriculum. 
The  Faculty  to-day  is  manned  by  scores  of  teachers  and  specialists 
of  broad  culture  and  practical  usefulness,  where  we  had  one  or 
two  in  our  time.  From  now  on,  it  is  unquestionably  the  fact  that 
very  great  further  advances  will  be  taken  along  both  curriculum 


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and  Faculty  strengthening.  The  coming  Yale  graduate  must 
know  what  has  been  the  matter  with  the  industrial  system,  with 
the  government,  with  politics  as  we  have  known  it,  and  must  have 
very  practical  and  useful  ideas  of  how  to  contribute  toward  the 
better  organization  of  the  American  nation  for  the  world  place 
it  is  bound  to  take  when  the  War  is  over.  I  do  not  mean  by 
this  that  Yale  College  must  change  over  from  the  traditional 
cultural  education  to  a  utilitarian  one.  I  do  mean  that  all  the 
keenest  minds  in  the  Yale  Faculty  to-day  are  adjusting  them- 
selves to  the  new  and  larger  call  that  the  country  is  making  and 
shortly  will  make  to  an  even  greater  extent  upon  the  colleges,  to 
do  their  part  in  the  new  era  that  is  immediately  ahead  of  us. 

As  I  write  (and  the  editorial  trick  of  lecturing  people  from 
the  altitudes  of  a  superior  outlook  upon  the  world  seems  to  have 
got  into  my  pen),  I  hear  the  tramp  of  feet  past  my  windows  on 
High  street  and  the  surge  of  voices.  It  almost  seems  as  if 
Ninety-three  were  marching  over  to  the  Hopkins  Lot  for  our 


MEMBERS    OF   THE    YALE   BATTERIES    BEING    SWORN    IN    TO    GOVERNMENT 
SERVICE   IN   JULY,    I916 


io4  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Class  Rush.  And  then  I  hear  the  staccato  of  military  commands, 
and  glance  out  to  see  a  column  of  Yale  boys  in  khaki  with  red 
cords  on  their  campaign  hats  swinging  along,  their  undergraduate 
company  officers  at  their  head.  Three  hundred  and  fifty  of 
them  are  spending  the  summer  in  the  hardest  kind  of  artillery 
training,  billeted  on  the  Old  Campus,  in  the  dormitories  that  you 
and  I  lived  our  careless,  happy  life  in  so  long  ago.  I  remember 
two  years  ago  when  the  Yale  Batteries  were  formed,  in  Prepared- 
ness for  what  might  follow.  Twelve  hundred  of  these  youths 
have  volunteered  for  the  War  since  that  time.  They  have  gone 
in  dozens  and  scores  and  hundreds,  as  the  calls  came,  and 
nobody — fathers  or  Deans  if  they  had  tried — could  have  kept 
them  from  going.  They  are  now  in  France  or  in  the  last  weeks 
of  their  training  on  this  side  to  get  there.  Those  that  have  not 
gone,  because  they  were  too  young  to  go,  are  training  at  the 
University  to  go.  The  whole  place  is  a  military  camp.  Members 
of  the  Faculty,  once  teachers  of  English  literature  and  paleon- 
tology and  Latin  and  German,  are  training  them  under  Army 
officers  or  training  the  Yale  Naval  Unit,  which  is  quite  as 
important  an  undergraduate  war  movement  as  the  artillery.  Of 
those  that  have  gone,  a  score  or  more  have  made  the  supreme 
sacrifice.  That  Honor  Roll  is  increasing.  Yale  is  giving  of  her 
best  to  the  mighty  struggle  for  our  civilization.  And  when  T 
see  these  things  and  watch  with  a  surging  heart  these  fine  boys 
spring  to  the  colors,  as  I  have  these  last  two  years,  I  know  that, 
regardless  of  all  the  changes  that  have  come  to  Yale  since  you 
and  I  were  there,  and  of  all  the  disappointments  that  perhaps 
some  of  us  have  felt  now  and  then  over  the  loss  of  some  things 
in  Yale  life  that  we  cared  for,  the  soul  of  Yale  is  the  same,  the 
boys  are  the  same,  their  loyalty  to  the  place  and  to  the  country 
is  as  great  as  ours  was,  if  not  greater. 

Yale  is  a  new  place  in  many  ways.  But  it  is  a  better  place. 
And  it  is  looking  forward  to  a  time  when  it  will  be  of  more  use 
to  America  than  it  used  to  be.  The  old  slogan  of  service  to  the 
country,  to-day  being  realized  in  the  military  enlistments  of  its 
sons,  to-morrow  will  mean  more  than  we  can  know  to-day.  For 
Yale  to-day  is  getting  ready  to  be  the  greater  Yale  of  the  future. 

Edwin  Oviatt. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


107 


Franklin  Jones  Abbe 

Managing  trustee  of  the  Home  Builders  Associates,  105  Main  Street, 
Brockton,  Massachusetts 

Residence,  12  Wyman  Street,  Brockton,  Massachusetts 

Abbe  is  a  son  of  Burr  Reeve  and  Julia  Arnold  (Jones)  Abbe, 
who  were  married  August  16,  1865,  and  had  five  other  children, 
three  daughters  and  two  sons :  Burr  Reeve  Abbe,  Jr.,  B.A.  Yale 
1889,   M.D.   Columbia   1895    (died  at  Long  Beach,   California, 


FRANKLIN   J.   ABBE 


in  1898),  and  Harry  Allen  Grant  Abbe,  B.A.  Yale  1892, 
B.D.  Hartford  Theological  Seminary  1900.  A  descendant 
of  John  Abbe,  who  came  from  England  about  1635  and  settled 
in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  Dr.  Abbe  (1830-1897)  was  the  son  of 
Alanson  Abbe,  B.A.  Yale  1821,  and  Eliza  Woodruff  (Barnes) 
Abbe,  and  grandson  of  Jonathan  Barnes,  B.A.  1784.  He  was 
graduated  from  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1854  and  his  two 
brothers,  Frederick  Randolph  and  Edward  Payson  Abbe,  from 
the  College  in  1848.  He  went  to  California  in  1849;  after 
graduating  from  college  he  practiced  medicine  in  New  Bedford, 


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Massachusetts,  and  Westport,  Rhode  Island,  for  a  few  years,  then 
went  to  Hong  Kong,  China,  where  he  was  a  commission 
merchant.  His  first  wife  was  Elizabeth  Swift  Nye  of  New 
Bedford  and  she  died  in  1863  from  the  effects  of  exposure  after 
being  shipwrecked  off  the  coast  of  China.  In  the  late  sixties  Dr. 
Abbe  returned  to  the  States  and  spent  the  rest  of  his  life  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  as  a  banker  and  broker.  Julia  (Jones)  Abbe 
(born  March  29,  1839,  in  Southington,  Connecticut)  is  the 
daughter  of  Rev.  Elisha  Cowles  Jones,  B.A.  Yale  183 1,  and 
Julia  (Chappell)  Jones.  Mr.  Jones  was  a  member  of  the  Yale 
Corporation  from  1862  until  his  death  in  1872.  His  son,  Rev. 
Franklin  Chappell  Jones,  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1857.  The 
family  is  probably  of  Welsh  descent. 

Franklin  Abbe  was  born  July  2,  1872,  in  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  Hartford  Public  High  School.  He 
received  a  Berkeley  Premium  of  the  first  grade,  an  oration  Junior 
and  a  dissertation  Senior  appointment. 

From  1893  to  1896  he  taught  school  in  Connecticut  and  during 
the  last  year  was  principal  of  Center  School  in  Farmington.  He 
then  became  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Abbe,  Adam  &  Com- 
pany, fire  insurance  brokers,  Canaan,  Connecticut,  but  after  three 
years  took  up  newspaper  reporting.  He  was  on  the  Evening 
Gazette,  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  and  the  Evening  News  of 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  1902  returning  to  the  Gazette  as  city 
editor  and  becoming  managing  editor  in  1903.  The  following 
year  he  became  telegraph  and  county  editor  of  the  Brockton 
Times.  In  December,  1906,  he  became  a  partner  in  the  insurance 
firm  of  Abbe  &  Jones  but  sold  out  in  19 12  in  order  to  give  his 
entire  time  to  the  real  estate  business.  In  November,  1916,  he 
organized  and  was  elected  managing  trustee  of  the  Home 
Builders  Associates,  for  the  purpose  of  developing  a  high  class 
residence  section.  He  still  holds  this  position,  but  is  also 
trustee  of  the  Brockton  Investment  Trust,  which  he  organized  in 
September,  191 7,  and  a  member  of  the  insurance  firm  of  Clifford 
&  Abbe,  which  he  entered  in  November,  19 17. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  with  Democratic  leanings  at  the 
present  time  owing  to  world  conditions.  He  was  a  delegate  to 
the  Connecticut  senatorial  convention  in  1898.  He  is  a  charter 
member  of  the  University  Club  of  Brockton  and  a  member  of  the 
Brockton  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  a  member  of  Piedmont 
Congregational  Church,  Worcester,  but  attends  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Brockton. 


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He  was  married  December  21,  1894,  in  Falls  Village,  Connect- 
icut, to  Olive,  daughter  of  Edwin  Henry  and  Ida  (Egleston) 
Wilcox.  They  have  three  sons:  Francis,  born  November  22, 
1895,  in  Falls  Village;  Alfred  Chappell,  born  April  22,  1897,  in 
Canaan,  Connecticut,  and  Douglas,  born  April  17,  1902,  in 
Worcester. 

Francis  is  a  musician  in  the  U.  S.  Navy. 


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HENRY   C.   ALLEN 


Henry  Crosby  Allen 

Lawyer,  Silk  City  Trust  Building,  Paterson,  New  Jersey 
Residence,  149  VanHouten  Street,  Paterson,  New  Jersey 

Allen  is  a  son  of  Samuel  C.  M.  and  Josephine  Amelia  (Crosby) 
Allen,  who  were  married  June  14,  1865,  and  had  four  other 
children:  Pauline  Crosby  Allen  (Mrs.  Alexander  Murray), 
Maude  J.  Allen,  Samuel  Morgan  Allen,  and  Elisha  Morgan  Allen 
(died  in  infancy).  The  immigrant  ancestor  was  Samuel  Allen, 
born  in  1605,  who  came  from  the  parish  of  Bridgewater,  County 
of  Somerset,  England,  with  his  wife,  Anne.  They  arrived  at 
Boston  about  1630  and  settled  at  Braintree,  south  of   Boston, 


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being  among  the  first  settlers  there.  He  was  made  a  freeman 
May  6,  1635.  Our  classmate's  father,  Samuel  Allen  (born  June 
13,  1828,  in  Lisbon,  Connecticut;  died  June  7,  1877,  in  Paterson, 
New  Jersey),  was  engaged  in  business  under  the  firm  name  of 
Allen  &  Brother,  provision  dealers,  New  York  City,  from  1855 
to  1870,  and  as  a  partner  in  the  Allen  Woolen  Mills,  Baltic  and 
Hanover,  Connecticut,  and  Allen  &  Brother,  wool  merchants, 
New  York  City,  1870-77.  His  wife  was  born  January  8,  1842, 
in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  and  died  there  December  31,  1896.  She 
was  descended  from  Simon  Crosby,  born  in  England  in  1608, 
who  came  to  America  in  May,  1635,  in  the  ship  Susan  and  Ellen. 
He  settled  at  Cambridge  (then  known  as  Cambridge  Farms), 
where  he  became  a  proprietor  in  November,  1635.  On  her 
mother's  side  Mrs.  Allen  was  the  great-granddaughter  of  General 
John  Hathorn  of  New  York,  member  of  the  Continental  and 
First  and  Fourth  U.  S.  Congresses,  and  a  Major  General  in  the 
Revolutionary  War. 

Henry  C.  Allen  was  born  May  13,  1872,  in  Paterson,  and  was 
prepared  at  Williams  Academy,  Stockbridge,  Massachusetts; 
University  School,  Baltimore;  McChesney  School,  Paterson,  and 
St.  Paul's  School,  Garden  City,  New  York.  In  college  he  played 
on  the  second  Banjo  Club,  and  was  a  member  of  the  second  Glee 
Club,  the  College  Choir  in  Senior  year,  and  Zeta  Psi. 

He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the  New  York  Law 
School  in  1895  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  Bar  in 
November  of  that  year.  He  has  practiced  in  Paterson  ever 
since.  He  is  executor  and  trustee  of  the  estate  of  Henry  B. 
Crosby. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  he  was  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Representatives,  Fifty-ninth  Congress,  1905  to  1907.  He  served 
on  the  Committee  on  Manufacturers  and  the  Committee  on  the 
Militia.  He  is  an  associate  member  of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board 
for  Passaic  County  and  Government  Appeal  Agent  on  Local 
Exemption  Board  No.  1,  of  Paterson. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  in 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  in  Paterson.  He  served  as  second 
reader  of  the  Paterson  church  for  two  years  and  as  first  reader 
for  three  years,  and  for  three  years  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees. 

He  belongs  to  the  Hamilton  Club,  Paterson,  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, Benevolent  Lodge,  No.  45,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  to  the  New  York  Association  of  Zeta  Psi. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  in 

He  was  married  September  10,  1917,  to  Anne  M.  Steele 
(Mrs.  Robert  H.  Winans),  daughter  of  Ira  S.  and  Haidee  F. 
(Govett)  Steele.  Mrs.  Allen  has  two  children,  both  born  in 
Ridgewood,  New  Jersey :  Margaret  Steele  Winans,  born  April  7, 
1 90 1,  now  attending  Northfield  Seminary,  and  Robert  Govett 
Winans,  born  March  30,  1904.  A  daughter,  Josephine  Crosby, 
was  born  September  27,  1918.  Mrs.  Allen  died  December  25, 
19 1 8,  in  Paterson. 

Allen  writes :  "My  life,  since  graduation,  has  been  one  of  ups 
and  downs.  I  have  practiced  law — which  means  that  sometimes 
I  ride  in  chaises,  but  often  walk.  I  have  traveled  abroad — I  have 
struggled  at  home.  I  have  dipped  into  politics,  touching  a  high 
spot  or  two — but  have  never  been  really  inoculated  with  the  virus. 
I  have  tasted  of  the  frivolities  of  life  and  I  have  preached — 
though  reading  in  a  Christian  Science  Church  is  not  preaching  in 
the  commonly  accepted — Birdsall,  Goodenough,  Mathison,  Spald- 
ing, Tyler — sense  of  the  term.  I  have  even  had  the  obituaryists 
sharpening  their  pencils — but  have  lived  to  attend  some  of  their 
funerals.  I  have  drunk  deep  of  the  cup  of  single  blessedness — I 
am  now  married  and  have  an  interesting  family." 


John  Weston  Allen 

Lawyer,  330  Tremont  Building,  Boston,  Massachusetts 

Residence,  219  Lake  Avenue,  Newton  Highlands,  Massachusetts 

Allen  is  a  son  of  Walter  and  Grace  Mason  (Weston)  Allen, 
who  were  married  October  9,  1866,  in  Worcester,  Massachusetts, 
and  had  six  other  children:  Agnes  (died  in  Newton  High- 
lands) ;  Grace  Weston  Allen,  B.L.  Smith  1891  (married 
Frederick  Stearns  Hollis,  Ph.D.,  B.S.  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology  1890)  ;  Walter  Hinds  Allen,  B.A.  Yale  1895,  Ph.B. 
1896;  Abby  Louise  Allen,  B.A.  Smith  1899;  Ethel  Clara  (died  in 
Newton  Highlands),  and  Alice  Miller  Allen,  Boston  Normal 
School  of  Gymnastics  1908.  Walter  Allen  (born  March  21, 
1840,  in  Boston,  died  February  7,  1907,  in  Newton  Highlands, 
Massachusetts),  son  of  Josiah  White  and  Nancy  (Hinds)  Allen, 
was  descended  from  Walter  Allen,  who  came  from  England  and 
was  settled  in  Newbury  in  1640.  Among  his  other  ancestors  were 
Henry  Adams,  grandfather  of  President  John  Adams  and  Major 


112 


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General  Humfrey  Atherton,  who  was  a  member  of  the  first  School 
Committee  and  became  commander  of  all  the  military  forces  in 
New  England  in  1661.  Mr.  Allen  was  graduated  from  Yale 
College  in  1863  and  served  during  the  Civil  War  with  the  26th 


J.    WESTON   ALLEN 

Massachusetts  Volunteers  for  a  short  time,  being  mustered  out 
in  order  to  accept  an  appointment  as  Acting  Assistant  Paymaster 
in  the  U.  S.  Navy.  After  the  war  he  engaged  in  newspaper  work 
and  was  associated  with  or  a  contributor  to  the  New  York  Herald, 
World,  Times,  and  Evening  Post,  the  Boston  Herald  and  Daily 
Advertiser;  Atlantic  Monthly  and  New  England  Magazine.  His 
contributions  were  chiefly  to  the  editorial  page  and  from  1885  to 
1887  he  was  editor-in-chief  of  the  Boston  Daily  Advertiser.  For 
four  years  he  was  one  of  the  editors  of  Webster's  International 
Dictionary  and  was  the  author  of  two  volumes,  "Governor 
Chamberlain's  Administration  in  South  Carolina,"  and  a  "Life 
of  General  Grant."  His  wife  (born  September  5,  1840,  in  New 
Braintree,  Massachusetts)  was  the  daughter  of  John  Granger 
and  Adeline  Augusta  (Tidd)  Weston.  Her  earliest  ancestors  in 
this  country  were  Richard  Warren  and  George  Soule,  both  of 
whom  came  to  Plymouth  in  the  Mayflower  in  1620;    Edmund 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  113 

Weston,  the  son  of  the  first  Weston  ancestor  in  America,  mar- 
ried the  granddaughter  of  George  Soule  and  lived  in  Duxbury. 

J.  Weston  Allen  was  born  April  19,  1872,  in  Newton  High- 
lands and  received  his  preparatory  school  training  at  the  Newton 
(Massachusetts)  High  School  and  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School, 
New  Haven.  In  college  he  received  a  TenEyck  Prize,  was  on 
the  editorial  board  of  the  Courant,  and  in  Sophomore  and  Junior 
years  was  a  member  of  the  Track  Team. 

In  1896  Allen  was  graduated  from  Harvard  with  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  and  has  practiced  his  profession  in  Boston  since  March, 
1897.  He  is  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Newton  Center 
Savings  Bank.  For  several  years  he  was  a  director  of  Lasell 
Seminary  and  lecturer  on  "The  Law  in  its  Relation  to  Women." 

He  has  served  in  the  House  of  Representatives  from  the  4th 
Middlesex  District  for  four  terms  (1915-18)  with  committee 
assignments  as  follows :  chairman,  Committee  on  Bills  in  the 
Third  Reading,  1915-17;  Banks  and  Banking,  1915;  chairman, 
Committee  on  Public  Service,  1916-17;  Committee  on  Consolida- 
tion of  Commissions,  1916-17;  Committee  on  Street  Railways, 
1918;  Committee  on  Administration  and  Commissions,  1918; 
House  chairman,  Committee  on  Investigation  of  the  Fish  Indus- 
try, 19 1 8.  He  is  a  candidate  for  the  Republican  nomination  for 
Attorney- General  of  Massachusetts. 

He  has  continued  his  interest  in  the  American  Indian  and  is  a 
trustee  of  the  Roe  Indian  Institute,  Wichita,  Kansas ;  chairman 
of  the  Boston  Indian  Citizenship  Committee,  and  a  member  of 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Indian  Industries  League. 

His  church  membership  is  in  the  Newton  Highlands  Congrega- 
tional Church  and  he  has  served  in  the  following  capacities : 
assistant  superintendent  of  the  Church  School  (three  years)  ; 
superintendent  (three  years)  ;  member  of  Church  Committee 
(three  years);  president,  Men's  League  (two  years).  He  is 
now  acting  as  chairman  of  the  Standing  Committee  and  Trustee 
of  the  Men's  League  Fund. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Club,  Society  of  May- 
flower Descendants,  Braeburn  Country  Club,  Massachusetts 
Republican  Club,  Bar  Association  of  the  City  of  Boston,  Sons  of 
Veterans  (Past  Junior  Vice-Commander),  Boston  Yale  Club, 
The  Players,  and  Highland  Glee  Club  (associate  member). 

He  was  married  June  12,  1901,  in  Amherst,  Massachusetts,  to 
Caroline  Cheney  Hills,  B.L.  Smith  1899,  daughter  of  Henry  F. 


ii4  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Hills,  a  manufacturer,  and  Adelaide  (Spencer)  Hills.  They 
have  three  daughters,  all  born  in  Newton,  Massachusetts :  Helen 
Spencer,  born  April  8,  1902;  Grace  Weston,  born  November  5, 
1905,  and  Caroline  Hills,  born  June  26,  1914. 

Allen  writes :  "No  man  who  graduates  from  Yale  and  who  has 
drunk  deep  at  her  fountains  can  ever  afterward  be  satisfied  with 
what  he  may  achieve  in  the  life  of  service  to  which  Yale  has 
dedicated  him.  There  is  always  a  restless  longing  to  do  more. 
If  we  become  complacent,  we  may  be  sure  we  have  lost  the  Yale 
spirit. 

"I  have  fallen  far  short  of  the  ambitions  of  twenty-five  years 
ago,  but  I  still  have  the  vision  and  the  purpose  of  that  Commence- 
ment Day.  In  the  environs  of  Harvard  I  have  loved  Yale. 
Among  Harvard  men  I  have  done  my  work.  After  ten  years  of 
association  with  John  D.  Long,  Harvard  '59,  and  Alfred  Hemen- 
way,  Yale  '6i,  I  have  had  twelve  years  of  general  practice.  My 
clients  have  kept  me  busy.  My  vacations  have  been  few  but 
worth  while.  In  191 1  I  traveled  in  Europe  with  my  family,  and 
my  last  vacation  was  three  years  ago  in  Porto  Rico  where  I  saw 
Joe  Anderson  for  the  last  time.  Until  I  entered  public  life,  I 
gave  much  of  my  spare  time  to  work  for  the  American  Indian, 
serving  on  three  expeditions  to  investigate  conditions  among  the 
Chippewas  in  Minnesota,  the  Five  Tribes  in  Oklahoma,  and  the 
Navajoes  in  New  Mexico  and  Arizona.  It  was  while  investi- 
gating land  and  timber  frauds  with  Professor  Moorehead  of 
Andover,  that  I  was  taken  into  the  Navajo  tribe  as  a  member  of 
the  Mississippi  Band  at  the  instance  of  Chief  Me-zhuc-ke-ge-shig, 
who  gave  me  his  name. 

"During  my  four  years  in  the  Legislature  I  have  had  to  give  up 
active  participation  in  Indian  work.  When  I  started  in  at  the 
State  House,  I  thought  it  would  be  somewhat  of  a  relaxation 
from  the  steady  grind  of  a  law  office  but  I  have  found  that  work 
in  committee  and  on  the  floor  takes  more  out  of  a  man  than  the 
pressure  of  work  in  court  and  I  am  glad  when  the  session  is  over 
and  I  can  get  back  to  my  desk.  Nevertheless,  it  is  a  keen  satis- 
faction, working  with  other  college  men,  to  have  a  part  in  the 
struggle  to  solve  the  present-day  problems  of  taxation,  rehabili- 
tation of  our  public  utilities,  and  war  finance.  If  any  of  you 
fellows  want  to  serve  your  day  and  generation  and  die  poor  as  a 
vicarious  sacrifice  on  the  altar  of  democracy,  get  into  the  State 
Legislature/' 


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"5 


La  fon  Allen 

Partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Barret,  Allen  &  Attkisson,  Lincoln  Bank 
Building,  Louisville,  Kentucky 

Residence,  Glenview,  Kentucky 

Allen  is  a  son  of  Charles  James  Fox  and  Caroline  (Belknap) 
Allen,  who  were  married  June  6,  1865,  and  had  four  other  chil- 
dren: William  B.  Allen,  Ph.B.  Yale  1889,  Ethel  (Allen)  Gage, 
Charles  W.  Allen,  B.A.  Yale  1901,  and  Arthur  D.  Allen,  B.A. 


LAFOX   ALLEN 


Yale  1901.  Charles  J.  F.  Allen  (born  August  14,  1834,  in  Pitts- 
field,  Massachusetts;  died  June  8,  191 1,  in  Glenview,  Kentucky) 
was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1855  and  received  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  from  Harvard  in  1859.  He  practiced  law  in  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  until  1862,  when  he  entered  the  Army,  serving  as  Addi- 
tional Paymaster  with  rank  of  Major  until  1865.  For  the  rest  of 
his  life  he  was  associated  with  the  Belknap  Hardware  &  Manufac- 
turing Company  of  Louisville,  of  which  he  was  vice-president  for 
many  years.  His  wife  was  born  July  2,  1846,  in  Louisville,  and 
died  May  30,  1897,  in  that  city. 


n6  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Lafon  Allen  was  born  August  2,  1871,  in  Louisville,  and  was 
prepared  at  the  Louisville  Male  High  School  and  at  Andover. 
He  received  a  second  colloquy  Junior  and  a  second  dispute  Senior 
appointment  and  one-year  honors  in  political  science  in  Senior 
year.  He  served  on  the  Ivy  Committee  and  was  a  member  of 
the  University  Banjo  Club,  Andover  Club,  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  and 
Wolf's  Head. 

After  one  year  in  the  Law  Department  of  the  University  of 
Louisville,  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Kentucky  Bar  in  June,  1894.  He  has  since  practiced  in 
Louisville,  in  191 2  having  formed  a  partnership  with  Alexander 
G.  Barret  and  Eugene  R.  Attkisson,  his  present  associates. 

In  1897  he  was  assistant  secretary,  treasurer,  and  a  member 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Louisville  Good  City  Govern- 
ment Club,  and  in  1900  he  served  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
an  organization  to  secure  a  "fair"  election  law  to  replace  the 
so-called  "Goebel  Election  Law."  In  1904  he  was  the  Republi- 
can nominee  for  county  attorney  and  in  1909  for  chancellor. 
He  was  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Kentucky 
in  1916  and  1917.  He  is  chairman  of  the  Louisville  War  Camp 
Community  Service  Board,  which  is  affiliated  with  the  Fosdick 
Commission,  and  chairman  of  the  Louisville  Chapter  of  the 
American  Red  Cross. 

He  published  in  the  American  Law  Review  for  November 
and  December,  1895,  articles  on  the  'Towers  of  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court." 

He  was  married  September  21,  191 1,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  to 
Emma  Hunter,  daughter  of  Hunter  H.  Powell,  a  physician,  and 
Emma  (Baker)  Powell.  They  have  two  daughters,  both  born  in 
Louisville:  Elizabeth  Powell,  born  October  9,  191 2,  and  Caroline 
Belknap,  born  June  3,  191 5. 


*  Joseph  Anderson 

Died  March  26,  1917 

Anderson  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Anna  Sands  (Gilder- 
sleeve)  Anderson,  who  were  married  January  24,  1859,  and  had 
four  other  children,  a  son  and  three  daughters :  William  Ander- 
son, Yale  ex-"&4  (died  in  May,  1884)  ;  Mary  Rose  (married 
Carl  E.  Munger,  '80S.;    died  November  25,  1889),  Isabel  Hoyt 


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117 


(died  in  infancy),  and  Anne  Sands  Anderson.  Joseph  Anderson, 
Sr.,  the  only  child  of  William  and  Mary  (Rose)  Anderson,  was 
born  at  Broomton,  Easter  Ross,  Scotland,  December  16,  1836, 
and  was  brought  to  the  United  States  six  years  later.     He  was 


JOSEPH   ANDERSON 

graduated  from  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  1854, 
and  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  three  years  later,  being  grad- 
uated from  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  the  same  year. 
In  1878  Yale  conferred  upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of  D.D. 
He  was  pastor  successively  of  several  churches  in  Connecticut, 
for  forty  years  serving  the  First  Church  of  Waterbury  actively 
and  from  1905  as  emeritus  pastor.  On  October  9,  1884,  ne 
became  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation  as  a  successor  to  the 
Original  Trustees  and  had  completed  nearly  thirty-two  years' 
service  at  the  time  of  his  death  on  August  18,  1916.  He  was  a 
clergyman  of  broad  theological  and  public  interests,  a  scholar  in 
Church  history,  and  a  life-long  student  of  historical  matters  per- 
taining to  Connecticut  and  Yale.  Mrs.  Anderson,  who  was  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Dorothy  (Hamilton)  Gilder- 
sleeve,  died  April  6,  1914,  in  Woodmont,  Connecticut. 

Joseph  Anderson,  Jr.,  was  born  July  9,  1871,  in  Waterbury, 


n8  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Connecticut,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Waterbury  High  School. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Football  Team  in  his  Senior  year 
and  received  a  second  colloquy  appointment.  He  belonged  to 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

From  1893  to  1895  ne  was  a  student  in  the  School  of  Law, 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  the  latter  year.  He  served  on 
the  editorial  board  of  the  Yale  Law  Journal. 

The  four  years  following  his  admission  to  the  Connecticut 
Bar  in  June,  1895,  were  spent  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Water- 
bury.  In  November,  1899,  he  went  to  Porto  Rico,  and  shortly 
afterwards  opened  a  law  office  in  San  Juan.  He  was  appointed 
United  States  commissioner  for  the  district  of  Porto  Rico  in 
1 901,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  about  six  years.  He  was 
greatly  interested  in  the  commercial  development  of  the  island. 
He  returned  to  the  United  States  in  September,  1916,  and  had 
since  resided  in  Woodmont,  Connecticut. 

He  had  been  in  poor  health  for  several  years,  and  his  death 
occurred  in  a  sanatorium  in  West  Haven,  Connecticut,  March  26, 
1917,  from  cirrhosis  of  the  liver  and  nephritis.  Burial  was  in 
the  Westville  (Connecticut)  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  September  12,  1899,  in  Bridgeport,  Connect- 
icut, to  Mary  Adelaide,  daughter  of  Thomas  Clarkson  and  Ella 
(Lines)  Lewis  of  New  Haven.  They  had  two  daughters,  Mary 
Rose,  born  June  10,  1905,  in  Hato  Rey,  Porto  Rico,  and  Anna 
Gilder  sleeve,  born  December  28,  1908,  in  San  Juan,  Porto  Rico. 


Christopher  Lester  Avery 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Waller,  Waller,  Avery  &  Gallup,  lawyers,  Plant 
Building,  New  London,  Connecticut 

Residence,  Groton,  Connecticut 

Avery  is  a  son  of  Christopher  Lester  and  Ellen  Barber  (Copp) 
Avery,  who  were  married  November  1,  1870,  and  had  two 
children,  a  son  and  a  daughter.  The  Avery  family  came  from 
England  about  1630  and  our  classmate's  great-grandfather  and 
his  brother  were  killed  in  the  Revolutionary  War  at  the  battle 
of  Groton  Heights,  September  6,  1781.  C.  L.  Avery,  Sr.  (born 
June  8,  1826,  and  died  January  1,  1904,  in  Groton,  Connecticut), 
was  in  the  grain  business.  He  was  first  married  on  January  30, 
1850,  to  Sarah  Wisner  Smith.     Mrs.  Ellen  (Copp)   Avery  was 


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also  a  native  of  Groton  and  descended  from  English  emigrants 
who  settled  in  that  part  of  Boston  now  called  Copps  Hill  early 
in  the  seventeenth  century.  She  was  born  July  30,  1832,  and 
died  April  4,  19 16,  in  Groton. 

Christopher  Avery,  Jr.,  was 
born  September  4,  1872,  in 
Groton,  and  was  prepared  at 
the  Norwich  (Connecticut) 
Free  Academy.  In  college  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Tug-of- 
War  Team  for  two  years, 
received  second  prize  in  the 
Intercollegiates  each  year  and 
won  the  light,  middle  and 
heavy-weight  championship  in 
wrestling.  He  maintained  an 
oration  rank  for  the  whole 
course. 

The  first  two  years  after 
graduation  he  taught  at  Cen- 
tral University,  Danville,  Ken- 
tucky, and  then  took  up  the 
study  of  law  at  Yale.  He 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
in  1897  and  was  admitted  to 
the  New  York  Bar  the   folJ 

lowing  year.  From  1898  to  1900  he  was  associated  with  the  firm 
of  Seward,  Guthrie  &  Steele,  New  York  City,  and  then  opened 
his  own  office  on  Broadway.  Since  1904  he  has  practiced  in  New 
London,  Connecticut,  where  he  is  now  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Waller,  Waller,  Avery  &  Gallup.  The  senior  member  of  the  firm, 
ex-Governor  Thomas  M.  Waller,  received  an  honorary  M.A.  at 
Yale  in  1883,  and  others  are  Yale  graduates, — Mr.  Tracy  Waller, 
B.A.  1882,  and  Charles  B.  Waller,  LL.B.  1896.  Avery  is  a  direc- 
tor of  the  New  London  City  National  Bank  and  of  the  Mariners 
Savings  Bank. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  served  as  warden  of  the 
borough  of  Groton  in  1909-10,  was  a  member  of  the  state  legisla- 
ture in  1913-14,  has  been  the  Connecticut  member  of  the  Com- 
mission on  Uniform  Legislation  since  191 5,  and  a  member  of  the 
Commission  on   Rivers,   Harbors   and  Bridges,   and  of   a  sub- 


CHRISTOPHER   L.    AVERY 


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committee  having  charge  of  the  terminals  at  New  London,  since 
1916. 

In  1898  he  enlisted  in  the  Brooklyn  Naval  Militia  and  was 
subsequently  made  a  Quartermaster  in  the  U.  S.  Navy;  after 
five  months'  service  he  was  honorably  discharged.  He  was  a 
Colonel  on  the  staff  of  Governor  Baldwin,  1913-15.  He  is  now 
serving  as  chairman  of  Draft  Board  No.  9,  in  New  London. 

He  is  a  member  of  Groton  Congregational  Church  and  chair- 
man of  the  society  committee.  He  belongs  to  Brainard  Lodge 
No.  2,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  was  a  master  of  the  lodge  in  1910, 

He  was  married  (1)  January  2,  1901,  to  Betsey  Ann,  daughter 
of  Isaac  P.  Bouse  of  Groton.  A  son,  Christopher  Lester,  Jr., 
was  born  August  25,  1902.     Mrs.  Avery  died  March  3,  1903. 

He  was  married  (2)  October  17,  1906,  to  Elizabeth  Anderson, 
daughter  of  William  Brander  of  New  London.  They  had  four 
children:  Betsey  Ann,  born  December  22,  1907;  Catherine 
Barber,  born  August  24,  1909;  William  Brander,  born  January 
12,  191 1,  and  Elizabeth  Brander,  born  December  22,  1913. 

He  was  married  (3)  October  2j,  19 17,  to  Ethel  Gray  Bailey. 


John  Whitney  Avery 

Avery  is  the  only  child  of  John  and  Cornelia  M.  (Curtis) 
Avery,  who  were  married  August  21,  1886. 

John  Avery  (born  September  18,  1837,  in  Conway,  Massachu- 
setts; died  September  1,  1887,  in  North  Bridgton,  Maine)  was 
graduated  from  Amherst  in  1861  and  three  years  later  received 
an  M.A.  degree.  In  1863  he  entered  upon  a  four  years'  course 
of  study  in  philology  at  Yale  College,  and  during  the  last  two 
years  of  that  time  he  was  also  a  teacher  in  the  department  of 
physics  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  The  degree  of  LL.D. 
was  conferred  upon  him  in  1887  by  Bowdoin.  He  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  American  Oriental  Society  in  1870  and  was 
assistant  editor  of  the  American  Antiquarian  and  Oriental  Jour- 
nal from  1875.  He  was  master  of  fifteen  languages.  Mrs. 
Avery  was  the  daughter  of  Judson  Curtiss  of  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut. 

John  W.  Avery  was  born  March  26  or  2J,  1869,  in  Huntington, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Andover 
and  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School,  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 
He  received  dispute  appointments  in  college. 


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121 


For  three  years  following  graduation  he  was  a  student  in  the 
Yale  Graduate  School,  pursuing  courses  in  ancient  languages. 
In  1896-97  he  taught  in  Pennsylvania  at  the  Media  Academy 
and  then  for  two  years  was  at 

St.  John's  Military  Academy,        r:  ] 

Sing  Sing  (Ossining),  New 
York.  A  year  at  the  Gunnery 
School,  Washington,  Connect- 
icut, was  followed  by  another 
year  of  study  at  Yale.  From 
1901  to  1903  he  was  an  in- 
structor at  the  Mount  Beacon 
Military  Academy,  Fishkill- 
on-Hudson,  New  York;  in 
1903-4  he  was  an  instructor 
in  Greek  at  the  Princeton 
Preparatory  School,  Prince- 
ton, New  Jersey,  and  from 
then  until  19 12  he  taught  at 
the  Manor  School,  Stamford, 
Connecticut.  In  recent  years 
he  has  not  been  actively  en- 
gaged, having  retired  to  de- 
vote himself  to  family  affairs. 

He  has  not  married. 


JOHN   W.   AVERY 


James  Addison  Babbitt 

Director  of  Chateau  Hospital,  Sermaize-le-Bain,  Marne  District,  working 
under  the  American  Friends'  Reconstruction  Unit  of  the  Red  Cross 

Address,  53,  Rue  de  Rivoli,  Paris,  France 

Professor  of  hygiene  and  physical  education,  Haverford  College, 
Haverford,  Pennsylvania 

Address,  1901  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 

Babbitt  is  a  son  of  James  Howard  and  Mary  French  (Abbott) 
Babbitt,  who  were  married  August  12,  1868,  and  had  five 
other  children,  three  sons  and  two  daughters :  Win  f red  Howard 
Babbitt,  B.A.  Williams  1895,  MarY  Elizabeth,  Harold  French 
(died  August  4,   1875),  Theodore  Perley  Babbitt,  Pharm.  D. 


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Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy  1905,  and  Alice  Evelyn 
(died  April  19,  1899).  James  H.  Babbitt,  born  January  13,  1839, 
in  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  and  died  September  14,  1903,  in 
Andover,  was  graduated  at  Amherst  in  1865,  received  the  degree 


JAMES    A.    BABBITT 


of  M.A.  from  that  institution  in  1868  and  in  the  same  year  com- 
pleted his  course  in  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary.  His 
pastorates  were  in  Vermont  and  he  showed  especial  interest  in 
educational  work,  serving  as  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  Brattleboro  Academy  and  as  superintendent  of  schools  in 
Swanton  and  Brattleboro.  The  first  mention  of  his  earliest 
ancestor  in  this  country  was  in  1643  m  Plymouth,  when  Edward 
Bobbit's  name  appeared  in  a  list  of  fifty-four  others,  between 
sixteen  and  sixty  years  of  age,  able  to  bear  arms.  Mrs.  Babbitt 
was  born  June  2,  1848,  in  Seabrook,  New  Hampshire,  and 
graduated  from  Abbot  Academy  in  1867. 

James  A.  Babbitt  was  born  October  2.2,  1869,  in  Waitsfield, 
Vermont,  and  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 
He  sang  on  the  Freshman  Glee  Club,  received  a  first  dispute 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  123 

Junior  year,  a  dissertation  appointment  Senior  year,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Andover  Club. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  Haverford  College 
twenty-five  years,  having  served  ten  years  as  registrar  and 
physical  instructor,  nine  as  associate  professor  of  physiology, 
and  the  balance  as  professor  of  hygiene  and  physical  education. 
He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Haverford  in  1896  and  that 
of  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1898.  He  has 
practiced  medicine  in  Philadelphia  in  addition  to  his  college 
duties  and  has  served  as  assistant  laryngologist  and  laryngologist 
in  the  Children's  Hospital,  in  the  Philadelphia  Home  for  Train- 
ing in  Speech  of  Deaf  Children,  and  in  the  German  Hospital; 
assistant  instructor  in  otology  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
instructor  in  diseases  of  the  nose  and  throat  at  the  Polyclinic 
Hospital,  and  assistant  in  the  ear  department  of  the  University 
Hospital,  Philadelphia.  In  the  summer  vacations  he  has  been 
director  of  the  Boys'  Department,  Chautauqua,  New  York,  and 
a  member  of  the  medical  board  and  attending  laryngologist, 
otologist,  and  ophthalmologist  of  the  Chautauqua  Lodge  Hospital. 
He  is  a  Fellow  of  the  College  of  Physicians  of  Philadelphia,  a 
member  and  former  president  of  the  A.  M.  P.  O.  medical 
fraternity,  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Laryngological,  Otological 
and  Rhinological  Society,  and  a  Fellow  of  the  American  College 
of  Surgeons.  In  191 5  he  was  elected  chairman  of  the  National 
Collegiate  Athletic  Association  Football  Committee  and  had  pre- 
viously served  on  various  committees  of  this  organization. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  A  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  and  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  his  clubs  are  the 
Merion  Cricket,  Union  League,  and  University.     He  is  a  Mason. 

Early  in  September,  1917,  he  sailed  for  France  to  engage  in 
reconstruction  work,  and  is  now  director  of  the  Chateau  Hospital, 
Sermaize-le-Bain,  and  head  of  the  American  Friends'  Recon- 
struction Unit  in  the  Marne  District. 

He  was  married  September  11,  1895,  in  Swanton,  Vermont,  to 
Mary  Abigail,  daughter  of  Edward  Payson  and  Helen  Best 
Adams.  They  had  four  daughters:  Mary  Evelyn,  born  June  21, 
1896,  a  student  at  Bryn  Mawr  College;  Helen  Adams,  born 
August  15,  1899;  Elizabeth  Dixie,  born  November  22,  1906,  and 
died  November  25,  1906,  and  Mary  Adams,  born  March  30,  191 1. 
Mrs.  Babbitt  died  March  31,  191 1. 


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Henry  Selden  Bacon 

Captain,  Aviation  Section,  Signal  Corps,  American  Expeditionary  Forces 
Home  address,  23  Faraday  Street,  Rochester,  New  York 

Bacon  is  a  son  of  Theodore  and  Julia  (Selden)  Bacon,  who 
were  married  February  18,  1864,  in  Rochester,  New  York,  and 
had  one  other  son,  Leonard  Beaumont  Bacon,  '96,  and  two 
daughters.     Theodore  Bacon  (born  May  6,  1834,  in  New  Haven, 


HENRY   S.   BACON 


Connecticut,  died  January  22,  1900,  in  Rochester,  New  York) 
was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1853.  He  served  through  the  Civil 
War  as  Captain  of  the  7th  Connecticut  Regiment,  and  assistant 
Adjutant  General  on  General  Terry's  staff,  and  subsequently 
practiced  law  in  Rochester.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Leonard 
Bacon  (B.A.  Yale  1820),  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation  and 
for  fifty-seven  years  minister  of  Center  Church  in  New  Haven, 
and  of  Lucy  Johnson  of  Boston.  The  family  came  from  Eng- 
land in  1636,  and  settled  at  Dedham,  Massachusetts.  Theodore 
Bacon's  seven  brothers  all  received  Yale  degrees.  Julia  (Selden) 
Bacon  (born  September  24,  1835,  in  Clarkson,  New  York;  died 
November  20,   1915)   was  a  daughter  of  Judge  Henry  Rogers 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  125 

Selden  of  Rochester,  a  lawyer  and  judge  of  the  New  York  Court 
of  Appeals,  who  received  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  at  Yale 
in  1857,  and  was  a  Lieutenant  Governor  of  New  York.  Her 
mother  was  Laura  Ann  Baldwin  of  Clarkson. 

Henry  S.  Bacon  was  born  March  25,  1872,  in  Rochester,  New 
York,  and  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Andover. 
In  college  he  received  oration  appointments  and  was  a  member 
of  Psi  Upsilon. 

After  a  year  in  his  father's  law  office  he  entered  the  Harvard 
Law  School  where  he  remained  for  two  years.  In  1896  he  was 
admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  and  practiced  in  Rochester  until 
1911. 

He  was  a  candidate  for  Congress  on  the  Democratic  ticket  in 
1904,  and  in  1909  was  the  nominee  for  Municipal  Court  judge. 
In  January,  191 1,  he  was  appointed  second  deputy  Attorney  GenJ 
eral  of  New  York  and  six  months  later  was  promoted  to  first 
deputy.  In  September,  1914,  he  resigned  this  position  to  resume 
private  practice  and  became  associated  with  the  firm  of  Duer, 
Strong  &  Whitehead  of  New  York  City. 

He  received  a  commission  as  Captain  in  the  Aviation  Section 
of  the  Signal  Corps  on  August  15,  1917,  and  has  been  in  foreign 
service  since  October,  1917,  in  Paris  and  London,  for  the  most 
part. 

He  has  not  married. 


Henry  Burr  Barnes 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Moen  &  Dwight,  lawyers,  45  Cedar  Street,  New 

York  City 

Residence,  67  East  Ninety-first  Street,  New  York  City 

Barnes  is  a  son  of  Henry  Burr  and  Hannah  Elizabeth  (Dixon) 
Barnes,  who  were  married  June  16,  1869,  and  had  five  other 
children:  Elizabeth  Williams  (married  William  B.  Potts,  who 
attended  Columbia  University)  ;  Priscilla  Dixon  (married  Mar- 
shall J.  Dodge,  Yale  '98)  ;  Sarah  Palmer  (married  A.  Edward 
Borie)  ;  Courtlandt  Dixon  Barnes,  Yale  '02,  and  Thomas  Sloane 
Barnes,  Yale  'io. 

Henry  B.  Barnes,  Sr.,  son  of  Alfred  Smith  and  Harriet  Eliza- 
beth (Burr)  Barnes,  was  born  December  14,  1845,  *n  Brooklyn, 


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New  York,  and  died  in  New  York  City,  January  n,  1911.  A 
graduate  of  Williston  Seminary  and  Yale  College  (1866),  Mr. 
Barnes  entered  his  father's  business,  A.  S.  Barnes  &  Company, 
publishers  of  school  and  hymn  books,  in  which  firm  he  main- 


HENRY   B.    BARNES 


tained  an  active  interest  until  his  death.  He  was  editor  of  the 
International  Review  for  several  years.  He  was  a  director  of  the 
American  Book  Company  from  its  incorporation  and  had  a  num- 
ber of  other  business  interests.  His  wife,  who  was  the  daughter 
of  Courtlandt  Palmer  and  Hannah  Elizabeth  (Williams)  Dixon, 
was  born  February  16,  1849,  in  Brooklyn,  and  died  March  14, 
1915,  in  New  York  City.  Robert  Dickson  was  born  in  Ayrshire, 
Scotland,  and  died  in  the  province  of  Ulster,  Ireland,  before 
1700;  his  son,  John  Dixson,  in  1719  emigrated  to  Boston,  but 
shortly  afterward  moved  to  New  London,  Connecticut.  Nathan 
Fellows  Dixon,  Mrs.  Barnes'  grandfather,  was  U.  S.  senator 
from  Rhode  Island  in  1839.  Her  maternal  ancestor  came  from 
England  to  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  about  1620. 

Besides  his   father  and  brothers,   a  great  uncle,   Charles   P. 
Williams,  1862,  three  uncles,  William  P.  Dixon,  1868,  William  D. 


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127 


Barnes,  1880,  and  Ephraim  W.  Dixon,  1881,  several  uncles  by 
marriage,  and  many  cousins  are  Yale  graduates. 

Henry  B.  Barnes,  Jr.,  was  born  September  15,  1872,  in  Stoning- 
ton,  Connecticut,  and  was  prepared  at  Everson's  School  in  New 
York  City.  In  college  he  re- 
ceived oration  and  dissertation 
appointments,  was  a  member  of 
the  Yale  Union,  treasurer  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  Junior  year  and 
attended  the  Students'  Confer- 
ence at  Northfield  in  1892.  He 
was  editor  of  the  Yale  Daily 
News  in  Senior  year,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  University  Club,  He 
Boule,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Scroll 
and  Key. 

He  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  at  Columbia  in  1897  and 
has  since  practiced  law  in  New 
York  City.  He  entered  into  his 
present  partnership  in  the  firm 
of  Moen  &  Dwight  (Frederick  Dwight,  Yale  '94)  in  June,  191 1. 
In  addition  to  the  law  he  has  been  associated  with  a  number  of 
companies :  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  Barnes  Real 
Estate  Association  (secretary  and  treasurer,  1911-16)  ;  president 
and  treasurer,  H.  B.  Barnes  Real  Estate  Corporation;  vice-presi- 
dent, Yale  Leasing  Corporation,  1916-17  (this  corporation  holds 
the  title  to  the  building  of  the  New  York  Yale  Club). 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Workshop  Committee  of  the  New  York 
Association  for  the  Blind  which  has  charge  of  Bourne  Work- 
shop, and  has  been  vice-president  of  the  South  Harlem  Neighbor- 
hood Association  since  191 5,  and  a  member  of  the  East  Side 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  for  the  same  time.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Metro- 
politan Museum  of  Art  and  of  the  American  Museum  of  Natural 
History.  He  is  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Deacons  and  secre- 
tary of  the  Men's  Bible  Class  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church  and  has  previously  served  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Board  of  Deacons. 

He  belongs  to  the  Republican  Club  of  the  Fifteenth  Assembly 
District.  From  August  23  to  October,  1917,  he  served  as 
Government  Appeal  Agent  for  Local  Board  for  Division  No. 


A    FAMILY   GROUP 


i28  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

147,  and  since  December  15,  1917,  in  the  same  capacity  for  Local 
Board  for  Division  No.  164,  New  York  City  and  State. 

He  has  traveled  extensively,  visiting  Europe  five  times,  Alaska, 
Mexico,  and  the  West  Indies. 

His  clubs  are  the  Yale,  Reform,  and  University  of  New  York  ; 
he  is  a  member  of  Phi  Delta  Phi  legal  fraternity,  the  American 
and  New  York  City  Bar  associations,  the  Philharmonic  Society, 
and  the  League  to  Enforce  Peace. 

He  was  married  March  27,  191 1,  in  New  York  City,  to  Mabel 
Irving,  daughter  of  Edward  Renshaw  and  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Baldwin)  Jones  of  New  York.  Mrs.  Barnes  was  one  of  the 
founders,  in  1898,  of  an  organization  auxiliary  to  the  New  York 
Children's  Aid  Society  to  provide  transportation  for  crippled 
children  to  and  from  school,  which  has  now  become  the  Associa- 
tion for  the  Aid  of  Crippled  Children  of  New  York;  she  is  one 
of  the  publication  committee  for  the  Federation  of  Associations 
for  Cripples,  and  active  in  the  work  of  the  State  Charities  Aid 
Society.  They  have  three  sons,  all  born  in  New  York  City: 
Henry  Burr,  Jr.,  born  August  12,  1912;  Edward  Jones,  born 
October  10,  1916,  and  Alfred  Smith,  born  November  15,  1917. 

His  only  comment  upon  his  aims  is :  "My  desire  to  reform  the 
universe  has  given  away  to  the  hope  that  I  will  not  retard  its 
regular  progress  by  my  own  interference." 


Ellery  Alphonso  Bates 

Commercial  designer,  31-33  West  Twenty-seventh  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  518  West  204th  Street,  New  York  City 

Bates  is  a  son  of  Benoni  and  Lucy  Wright  (Matteson)  Bates, 
who  were  married  November  13,  1871,  and  had  three  other 
children:  Elsie  Wright  Bates  (Mrs.  Albert  E.  Saunders),  B.A. 
Smith  College  1900,  John  Clark,  and  Abigail  Wilson  Bates.  The 
father  was  born  October  13,  1843,  in  Coventry,  Rhode  Island, 
the  son  of  Solomon  King  and  Alsa  (Nichols)  Bates,  and  lived 
in  his  native  town  until  1877  when  he  removed  to  Windham, 
Connecticut.  He  was  a  store  clerk,  farmer,  and  school  teacher, 
having  attended  the  Rhode  Island  State  Normal  School  for  a 
time.  Mrs.  Bates,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Levi  and  Cynthia 
Bowen    (Wright)    Matteson,  was   born   September   7,    1843,   m 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


Phenix,  Rhode  Island,  and  died  January  5,  1916,  in  Windham, 
Connecticut.  One  Henry  Wright,  a  maternal  ancestor,  was  a 
resident  of  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  prior  to  1636,  and  Mrs. 
Bates  was  a  descendant,  in  the  seventh  generation,  from  Roger 


ELLERY   A.   BATES 

Williams.  Both  the  Bates  and  Matteson  families  came  from 
England  before  the  Revolution. 

Ellery  A.  Bates  was  born  September  12,  1872,  in  Harris, 
Rhode  Island,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Willimantic 
(Connecticut)  High  School.     He  received  dispute  appointments. 

From  1893  to  1895  he  was  engaged  in  tutoring  in  Westfield, 
Massachusetts,  and  during  the  three  succeeding  years  he  com- 
bined work  at  the  Art  Students'  League  and  Academy  of  Design 
in  New  York  City  with  tutoring.  In  1898  he  became  an 
instructor  in  the  Chicago  Latin  School  and  continued  in  this 
work  until  1905,  when  he  returned  to  New  York  and  accepted  a 
position  in  the  art  department  of  the  American  Lithographic 
Company,  designing  advertising  matter.  In  1907  he  was 
employed  by  a  syndicate  illustrating  and  editing  a  humorous 
pictorial  page  for  newspaper  use  and  since  that  time  has  been 
engaged  in  commercial  designing  independently. 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


In  reply  to  the  question  regarding  writings  he  says :  "I  have 
had  jokes,  jingles,  and  sketches  paid  for  and  published  just  about 
enough  to  ruin  my  amateur  standing.  Life,  Judge,  and  the 
Woman's  Home  Companion  are  publications  that  I  recall  as 
victims." 

Bates  was  married  June  20,  1907,  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Ida 
R.,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Rosina  (Hiebler)  Stahl,  who  is 
of  French  and  Alsatian  descent.     They  have  no  children. 


HENRY   C   BEADLESTON 


Henry  Colwell  Beadleston 

Lawyer,  120  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  115  East  Sixty-fifth  Street,  New  York  City 

Beadleston  is  a  son  of  William  Henry  and  Susan  Ann  (Col- 
well) Beadleston,  who  were  married  in  1870  and  had  four  other 
children:  William  L.  Beadleston,  B.A.  Yale  1895  (died  in 
March,  1915,  in  Montclair,  New  Jersey);  Randolph;  C.  Perry 
Beadleston,  B.A.  Yale  1908,  and  Edith  Beadleston.  William  H. 
Beadleston   (February  24,  1840,  to  October  24,   1895)   lived  in 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


New  York  City  all  his  life.  Descended  from  English  and  Scotch 
ancestors,  the  family  names  were  Nash,  Benedict,  and  Strickland, 
John  Benedict,  B.A.  Yale  1747,  being  a  great-great-great-grand- 
father. These  families  settled  in  this  country  in  the  seventeenth 
and  eighteenth  centuries.  A  graduate  of  New  York  University 
in  1862,  Mr.  Beadleston  was  president  of  the  firm  of  Beadleston 
and  Woerz  and  a  director  of  a  number  of  banks.  His  wife, 
Susan  A.  Colwell,  was  born  in  January,  1845,  m  New  York  City, 
and  died  January  2,  191 1.  Her  ancestors  were  English  and 
Dutch,  family  names  being  Colwell,  Adams,  and  VanAuken. 
They  settled  in  this  country  before  1750. 

Henry  C.  Beadleston  was  born  May  31,  1871,  in  New  York 
City,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
New  Hampshire.  He  played  on  the  Freshman  Football  Team, 
received  colloquy  appointments,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Senior 
Prom  Committee,  the  Renaissance  Club,  St.  Paul's  School  Club, 
University  Club,  He  Boule,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Wolf's  Head. 

After  two  years  of  graduate  study  he  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  cum  laude  at  the  New  York  Law  School  in  1895  and  was 
admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  June  of  that  year.  He  has 
since  practiced  independently  in  New  York.  He  is  secretary, 
counsel,  and  a  director  of  the  Controller  Company,  Inc.,  manu- 
facturers of  calculating  machines,  and  president  and  a  director  of 
the  Beadleston  Realty  Corporation. 

In  1917  he  accepted  an  appointment  as  an  associate  member  of 
the  Legal  Advisory  Board  for  the  city  of  New  York  under  the 
provision  of  the  Selective  Service  Regulation,  and  is  now  serv- 
ing thereunder.     He  is  a  Republican  in  national  politics. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Racquet  and  Tennis,  the  University, 
Yale,  and  Rockaway  Hunt  clubs,  and  the  New  York  Bar  Associa- 
tion. 

He  was  married  December  22,  1896,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Alice  Lee,  daughter  of  Alfred  Seton  and  Alice  Lee  (Morgan) 
Post,  and  sister  of  A.  Seton  Post,  Ph.B.  Yale  1898.  They  have 
one  daughter,  Alice  Lee,  born  July  16,  1903,  in  Cedarhurst,  New 
York,  who  is  attending  the  Brearley  School,  and  expects  to  enter 
Miss  Porter's  School  at  Farmington  next  year.  Mrs.  Beadleston 
is  active  in  Junior  War  Relief  and  Red  Cross  work. 


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George  Palmer  Beebe 

Practicing  law  independently,  34  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  10  Sidney  Place,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

Beebe  is  the  only  son  of  Isaac  N.  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Palmer) 
Beebe,  who  were  married  September  18,  1854,  and  also  had  one 
daughter,  Minnie  (Mrs.  Myron  N.  Clark).  The  father,  born 
August  7,   1833,  in  Falls  Village,  Connecticut,  was  of  English 

descent ;  he  was  a  farmer  and 
lived  in  Salisbury  and  East 
Canaan,  where  he  died  Jan- 
uary 21,  1887.  Mrs.  Beebe 
was  born  in  Norfolk,  Connect- 
icut, November  2,  1835,  and 
died  in  the  same  town  Novem- 
ber 24,  191 5.  Her  ancestors 
came  from  Ireland. 

George  P.  Beebe  was  born 
December  8,  1867,  in  Salis- 
bury, Connecticut,  and  was 
prepared  at  the  Robbins 
School  in  Norfolk.  He  re- 
ceived colloquy  appointments. 
He  is  a  member  of  Alpha 
Delta  Phi. 

He  was  a  student  in  the 
New  York  Law  School  from 
1893  to  1895,  when  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  LL.B.; 
he  had  been  admitted  to  the 
New  York  Bar  the  previous  year.  From  1895  to  1897  he  was 
associated  with  the  corporation  counsel  of  Brooklyn  and  he  then 
practiced  in  Brooklyn  until  1905.  Since  the  latter  date  he  has 
practiced  in  New  York  but  continues  to  reside  in  Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  December  8,  1900,  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
to  Frances,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Hannah  (Dougherty) 
Peele.  Mrs.  Beebe  graduated  from  the  Medical  department  of 
the  University  of  Michigan  in  1888,  and  was  a  practicing 
physician  and  surgeon  before  her  marriage.  They  have  no 
children.  * 


GEORGE   P.   BEEBE 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


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William  Reynolds  Begg 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Taylor,  Humes  &  Begg,  lawyers,  24  Broad  Street, 

New  York  City 

Residence,  315  Central  Park  West,  New  York  City 

Begg  is  a  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Shackleford)  Begg,  who 
were  married  in  1863  and  had  three  daughters  and  four  sons. 
Two  of  the  daughters  are  deceased.  James  Begg  was  born 
December  25,  1834,  in  Tariffville,  Connecticut,  the  son  of  James 
and  Mary  Begg,  who  came  from  Paisley  in  Ayrshire,  Scotland, 
and  settled  in  Jersey  City  in  1826.  He  lived  in  the  North  until 
1855  and  thereafter  until  his  death  on  June  2,  1882,  in  South 
Carolina.  Before  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he  was  a 
manufacturer  of  silver  plating;  from  1861  to  1865  he  worked  in 
a  Confederate  armory,  and  after  the  war  was  engaged  in  brick 


WILLIAM    REYNOLDS    BEGG 


making,  as  a  master  mechanic  on  the  Spartanburg  &  Union  Rail- 
road, and  from  1872  to  1882  was  connected  with  the  construction 
of  cotton  mills  in  Glendale  and  Clifton.  Mrs.  Mary  (Shackle- 
ford)     Begg    was    born    in     September,     1843,    in    Nashville, 


i34  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Tennessee,  the  daughter  of  George  W.  and  Mary  (Reynolds) 
Shackleford.  On  her  father's  side  she  is  of  Dutch  ancestry, 
members  of  the  family  having  settled  in  Tennessee  about  1790; 
her  mother  was  of  English  descent. 

William  R.  Begg  was  born  February  12,  1869,  in  Spartan- 
burg, South  Carolina.  He  attended  private  schools  in  the  South 
and  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  (Connecticut)  Public 
High  School.  He  was  the  ranking  scholar  of  the  Class  and 
valedictorian ;  he  received  honorable  mention  in  the  award  of 
the  Hugh  Chamberlain  Greek  Prize,  was  the  Hurlbut  Scholar  in 
Sophomore  year,  won  a  Berkeley  Premium  of  the  second  grade, 
and  took  a  second  DeForest  Mathematical  Prize;  in  1891-92  he 
received  a  first  Lucius  F.  Robinson  Latin  Prize  and  held  the 
Waterman  Scholarship  during  Junior  and  Senior  years.  He 
was  president  of  the  Yale  Union  and  of  the  Cleveland  (Demo- 
cratic) Club,  served  on  the  Senior  Prom  Committee  and  was  a 
member  of  He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Skull  and  Bones, 
and  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

One  year  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law  was  followed  by  another 
in  the  same  department  of  the  University  of  Minnesota  and 
Begg  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  that  institution  in  1895 
and  was  admitted  to  the  Minnesota  Bar.  During  his  second 
year  of  graduate  study  he  entered  the  office  of  the  legal  depart- 
ment of  the  Great  Northern  Railway  Company  and  maintained 
this  connection  until  1899.  From  1900  to  1902  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Squires  &  Begg  and  in  1902  of  Armstrong 
&  Begg.  This  partnership  was  dissolved  in  1903  when  Begg 
returned  to  the  Great  Northern  as  assistant  general  solicitor;  in 
1907  he  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  general  counsel,  con- 
tinuing until  1909,  when  he  resigned  to  reengage  in  private 
practice  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Byrne  &  Cutcheon  of  New 
York  City.  On  June  1,  191 6,  the  firm  name  was  changed  to 
Byrne,  Cutcheon  &  Taylor,  and  on  December  1,  1917,  dissolved, 
and  succeeded  by  Taylor,  Humes  &  Begg.  He  is  a  director  of 
Wilson  &  Company,  packers. 

His  clubs  are  the  Metropolitan,  University,  Yale,  Down  Town, 
City  Midday,  and  Reform  of  New  York  City,  the  University 
Club  of  Chicago,  and  the  Sleepy  Hollow  Country  Club.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  American,  New  York  State,  New  York  City, 
and  Minnesota  Bar  associations.     In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat. 

He  was  married  April  21,  1897,  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  to 
Louise,  daughter  of  Norman  H.  and  Alice   (Church)    Spencer 


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i35 


of  Hartford.  Mrs.  Begg  attended  the  Hartford  Public  High 
School  and  spent  one  year  at  Wellesley  College.  They  have  one 
son:  William  Spencer,  born  November  24,  1907,  in  St.  Paul, 
Minnesota;    he  is  attending  Trinity  School,  New  York  City. 


RALPH    BIRDSALL 


-'Ralph  Birdsall 

Died  September  23,  1918 

The  first  American  ancestor  of  the  Birdsall  family  was  a 
French  Huguenot  who  settled  at  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island,  about 
1660.  Ralph's  father,  Elias  Birdsall,  was  born  in  Hammonds- 
port,  New  York,  February  21,  1831,  and  died  in  Los  Angeles, 
California,  November  4,  1890.  He  was  graduated  from 
Nashotah  Seminary  in  1856  and  was  thereafter  engaged  in 
the  ministry  of  the  Episcopal  Church, — until  1862  in  Indiana, 
and  then  in  California.  He  also  served  as  editor  of  the  Pacific 
Churchman  and  was  a  deputy  to  the  General  Convention.  He 
married  on  May  3,  1859,  Cornelia  Bennett,  who  was  born 
September  7,  1834,  in  New  Berlin,  New  York.     She  is  descended 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


from  Thomas  Bennit,  who  came  from  Stratford-on-Avon,  Eng- 
land, and  settled  at  Stratford,  Connecticut,  in  1639. 

Ralph  Birdsall  was  born  December  27,  1871,  in  Stockton,  Cali- 
fornia, and  was  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School  and  at  McPherron 
Academy,  both  in  Los  Angeles.  He  made  colloquy  rank  in 
college. 

After  two  years  of  newspaper  work  in  New  Haven  he  was  a 
student  at  the  General  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York  for 


one  year.  In  1896-97  he  attended  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School, 
Middletown,  Connecticut,  was  then  ordained  a  deacon  in  the 
Episcopal  Church  and  appointed  assistant  minister  of  St.  Paul's 
Church,  Albany,  New  York.  The  following  year  he  was 
ordained  to  the  priesthood  by  Bishop  Doane,  and  from  1899  to 

1902  served  as  rector  of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Albany.     Since 

1903  he  had  been  at  Christ  Church,  Cooperstown,  and  he  died 
at  his  home  there  on  September  23,  1918. 

When  furnishing  data  for  this  book  he  wrote:  "Visited  Eng- 
land in  1902,  and  made  a  pilgrimage  to  the  tomb  of  Elihu 
Yale,  at  the  parish  church  of  Wrexham,  in  Wrales.  With 
Mrs.  Birdsall,  made  a  brief  visit  in  Italy  in  191 1.     But,  as  the 


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years  pass,  I  grow  less  inclined  to  travel  away  from  home,  even 
for  moderate  distances.  A  stay  of  a  few  days  in  New  York  City 
surfeits  me  with  metropolitan  delights,  and  sends  me  back  to 
the  woods  almost  determined  never  again  to  forsake  them.  This 
disinclination  to  move  is  due,  I  think,  not  so  much  to  the  gradual 
inertia  of  middle  age,  as  to  my  utter  contentment  in  the  charms 
of  village  life  that  have  cast  their  spell  upon  me  in  the  quaint 
and  picturesque  environs  of  my  home.  Fortunately  the  fame  of 
Cooperstown  as  a  summer  resort  brings  hither  now  and  then  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  Ninety- three,  and  adds  to  the  duty  of 
acting  as  guide  to  Cooper's  grave  and  other  points  of  interest 
the  pleasure  of  renewing  old  acquaintance." 

In  1907  Birdsall  served  as  chairman  of  the  Cooperstown 
Centennial  Celebration.  He  was  trustee  and  secretary  of  the 
Susan  Fenimore  Cooper  Foundation  (a  vocational  school  for  boys 
and  girls),  Cooperstown.  He  was  appointed  archdeacon  of  the 
Susquehanna  by  the  Bishop  of  Albany  in  19 13  and  was  a  deputy 
to  the  General  Convention  from  the  diocese  of  Albany  in  1913 
and  1916.  Yale  conferred  the  degree  of  M.A.  upon  him  in  191 1. 
He  received  an  appointment  as  lecturer  on  the  Page  Foundation, 
Berkeley  Divinity  School,  for  1918. 

His  publications  are  "Fenimore  Cooper's  Grave,"  The  Grafton 
Press,  New  York,  191 1 ;  "Sermons  in  Summer,"  The  Crist  Com- 
pany, Cooperstown,  1912,  and  "The  Story  of  Cooperstown,"  The 
Crist  Company,  19 17. 

He  was  married  August  25,  1904,  in  Cooperstown,  New  York, 
to  Jessie  Cicely,  daughter  of  Harry  Maurrelle  Reid,  judge  of  the 
City  Court,  Atlanta,  Georgia,  and  Gertrude  (Carleton)  Reid. 
Mrs.  Birdsall  is  a  graduate  of  the  Lucy  Cobb  Institute,  Athens, 
Georgia.  They  had  two  children:  Gertrude,  born  June  29, 
1905,  who  is  attending  St.  Agnes'  School,  Albany,  and  Ralph,  Jr., 
born  April  14,  19 12. 

The  following  is  taken  from  an  editorial  entitled  "The  Rector 
of  the  Village"   in  The  Oneonta  Star: 

"Practically  the  whole  of  his  priestly  life  was  spent  in  Cooperstown, 
the  short  period  of  service  elsewhere  being  merely  preparation  for  that 
work,  which  eighteen  years  ago  he  took  up  at  the  county  seat.  From  the 
day  he  became  a  citizen,  he  entered  heart  and  soul,  body  and  mind,  into 
its  life.  Hampered  much  by  ill  health,  the  bufferings  of  fate  did  not  cast 
him  down.  He  saw  his  community  whole  and  not  through  any  narrowed 
eye  of  prejudice. 

"Whatever  was  good  for  the  town,  in  that  he  took  active  part.    There 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


was  no  enterprise  for  its  betterment  in  which  farther  than  his  health 
permitted,  he  did  not  engage.  His  sermons  were  marvels  of  scholarly 
diction  and  reasoning,  and  his  addresses  on  public  occasions  will  long  be 
remembered  for  their  civic  and  patriotic  spirit.  Embracing  to  the  full  the 
life  of  the  village,  he  entered  more  deeply  than  many  to  whom  Coopers- 
town  was  the  place  of  nativity  into  its  history  and  traditions.  One  evi- 
dence of  this  is  his  'Story  of  Cooperstown,'  a  volume  which  for  all  time 
pictures  and  portrays  events,  which  but  for  him  might  and  probably 
would  have  been  lost  forever." 


mil 


*  Harry  Llewellyn  Bixby 

Died  October  20,  1902 

Harry  L.  Bixby,  a  son  of  Jotham  Bixby,  who  was  prominently 

connected  with  farming  and  real  estate  interests  in  California, 

and  Margaret  Winslow 
(Hathaway)  Bixby,  was  born 
December  20,  1870,  at  Los 
Cerritos,  near  Longbeach, 
California.  George  Hatha- 
way Bixby,  Yale  '86,  is  an 
elder  brother. 

Harry  received  a  dissertaj 
tion  Junior  and  dispute  Senior 
appointment,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  University  and 
Andover  clubs,  the  Class  Sup- 
per Committee,  and  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a 
year  at  Longbeach  and  then 
entered  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons,  Columbia 
University.  Ill  health  com- 
pelled him  to  give  up  profes- 
sional study  at  the  end  of  two 
years,  and  he  then  engaged  in 

sheep  raising  in  Arizona.     On  October  20,   1902,  after  a  brief 

illness,  he  died  of  appendicitis,  at  Phoenix. 

He   was    married    November    15,    1899,    to   Juliette   Winston 

Graham  of  Chicago.     They  had  one  son,  Henry  Llewellyn,  Jr., 

born  August  27,  1900. 


HARRY   L.    BIXBY 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


i39 


Clifford  Douglass  Bliss 

Local   representative   for   White,   Weld  &   Company    (New   York   City), 
investment  bankers,  36  Pearl  Street,  Hartford,  Connecticut 

Mail  address,  Box  1281,  Hartford,  Connecticut 

Bliss  is  one  of  the  eleven  children  of  Robert  and  Susan  Maria 
(Handy)  Bliss,  who  were  married  November  13,  1861.  Of 
eight  sons  and  three  daughters  only  one  son  is  deceased.  Robert 
Bliss  (born  December  3,  1828,  in  Jewett  City,  Connecticut;   died 


CLIFFORD    D.    BLISS 


September  12,  1905,  in  New  York  City)  attended  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  and  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1850.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Bliss,  Fay  &  Allen  and  later  of 
Bliss  &  Allen,  drygoods  merchants  in  New  York  City,  from 
1861  to  1882,  and  from  1883  to  1888  was  vice-president  of  the 
National  Bank  of  New  York.  The  son  of  Rev.  Seth  Bliss 
(honorary  M.A.  Yale  1830)  and  Jennette  Frances  (Root) 
Bliss,  he  was  descended  from  Thomas  Bliss  of  England,  one 
of  the  first  settlers  in  Hartford.  Mrs.  Bliss,  who  was  the 
daughter    of    Parker   and    Marian    (Sloan)    Handy,   was   born 


i4o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

September  12,  1837,  in  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  and  died  February 
20,  1913,  in  Highwood,  New  Jersey.  Her  first  American 
ancestors  settled  in  Williamstown,  Massachusetts,  in  1725,  and 
she  was  a  Daughter  of  the  American  Revolution. 

Clifford  Bliss  was  born  July  16,  1870,  in  New  York  City,  and 
was  prepared  at  Andover.  He  was  on  the  Varsity  Squad  for 
three  years,  played  right  half-back  on  the  1892  Team,  and  third 
base  on  the  Freshman  Baseball  Team.  He  is  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon. 

He  was  in  his  father's  office  in  New  York  from  1893  to  1896; 
with  Armour  &  Company,  Indianapolis,  1896 ;  with  the  Standard 
Oil  Company  in  Kansas,  1897,  and  again  in  his  father's  office, 
1898  to  1 90 1.  During  1901  he  was  an  agent  for  the  construc- 
tion department  of  the  New  York  Telephone  Company  and  then 
became  a  traveling  salesman.  From  1902  to  1908  he  worked  in 
this  capacity  for  the  Weidman  Silk  Company,  Paterson,  New 
Jersey;  1909,  Belding  Brothers,  silks,  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  1910-11, 
Printz-Biederman  Company,  manufacturers  of  cloaks  and  suits, 
Cleveland,  Ohio;  1912-14,  Goodyear  Tire  &  Rubber  Company, 
Boston  branch;  1914,  Green  &  Swett,  automobile  supplies, 
Boston;  1915,  N.  W.  Halsey  &  Company,  Boston;  1916,  White, 
Weld  &  Company  (New  York),  investment  bankers,  Hartford, 
Connecticut. 

In  April,  1917,  he  joined  the  naval  division  of  the  Connecticut 
Home  Guard  and  ranks  as  a  Coxswain.  Republican  in  politics. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  His  clubs  are  the 
Hartford,  Hartford  Golf,  and  the  Yale  of  New  York. 

He  has  not  married. 

His  brother,  Laurence  Thornton  Bliss,  graduated  from  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1893. 


William  Bradford  Boardman 

Lawyer,  502  Security  Building,  Bridgeport,  Connecticut 
Residence,  303  Mill  Hill  Avenue,  Bridgeport,  Connecticut 

Boardman's  parents  were  married  September  17,  1863,  and 
had  two  other  sons,  Francis  Barber  and  Henry  Bradford,  and  a 
daughter,  Sarah  Bradford  Boardman  (died  February  22,  1869). 
Moses  Bradford  Boardman,  the  father  (born  May  25,  1833,  in 


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141 


Francestown,  New  Hampshire ;  died  September  22,  1907,  in 
New  Britain,  Connecticut),  was  descended  through  his  father 
from  Thomas  Boreman,  who  came  from  England  to  Ipswich, 
Massachusetts,  in  1634,  and  through  his  mother,  Sarah  Eaton 


WILLIAM   B.   BOARDMAN 


Bradford,  from  William  Bradford,  one  of  the  leaders  of  that 
first  company  of  Pilgrims  who  landed  at  Plymouth  Rock  in  1620. 
He  was  graduated  from  Amherst  College  in  i860,  then  spent  two 
years  at  Union  Theological  Seminary,  and  received  the  degree 
of  B.D.  from  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1863.  The  rest 
of  his  life  was  spent  in  the  work  of  a  Congregational  minister 
in  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut.  His  wife,  Ellen  Emeline 
(Barber)  Boardman,  was  born  August  28,  1839,  in  Greensboro, 
Georgia,  and  died  May  12,  1910,  in  New  Britain,  Connecticut. 
Her  parents  were  Orville  and  Emeline  (Brooks)  Barber,  and 
her  ancestor,  Thomas  Barber,  came  to  New  England  in  1635 
and  settled  at  Windsor,  Connecticut,  in  1638. 

William  B.  Boardman  was  born  August  22,  1871,  in  Brimfield, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  prepared  at  the  New  Britain  High 
School.      In  college  he  received  oration  appointments   and,   in 


142  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Senior  year,  honors  in  history.  He  played  on  the  Senior  Foot- 
ball Team,  was  on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Courant,  and  a 
member  of  Zeta  Psi. 

Like  several  others  in  the  Class  he  turned  first  to  teaching 
and  was  connected  with  the  University  School  of  Bridgeport 
until  1896.  He  then  entered  the  Yale  Law  School  and  in  1898 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.,  having  been  admitted  to  the 
Connecticut  Bar  in  January  of  that  year.  With  the  exception  of 
the  time  from  September,  1906,  to  November,  1907,  when  he 
served  as  an  assistant  attorney  for  the  New  York,  New  Haven  & 
Hartford  Railroad  Company,  with  offices  in  New  Haven,  he  has 
practiced  in  Bridgeport.  He  was  in  the  office  of  Stoddard  & 
Bishop  from  1898  to  1902,  then  became  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Stoddard,  Marsh  &  Boardman,  which  continued  until  he  went 
to  the  railroad.  After  resigning  from  this  position  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  George  E.  Hill,  '87,  under  the  name  of  Hill 
&  Boardman,  which  terminated  on  Mr.  Hill's  death  in  1916;  he 
is  now  practicing  alone.  He  is  a  director  in  three  local  business 
concerns. 

In  June,  1907,  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  State  Bar 
Examining  Committee  and  since  January,  19 12,  has  served  as 
its  secretary.  From  19 12  to  19 16  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Education  of  Bridgeport.  He  is  a  Republican.  He 
has  served  as  a  Four-Minute  Man  (1918),  as  Chairman  of  the 
Legal  Advisory  Board  attached  to  the  Local  Board  for  the  Fourth 
District  (Bridgeport),  and  as  chairman  of  all  the  Legal  Advisory 
boards  in  the  city.  In  the  spring  of  191 7  he  enlisted  as  a  private 
in  Company  I,  4th  Regiment,  Connecticut  Home  Guard. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Park  Street  Congregational  Church 
and,  since  191 1,  has  been  treasurer  of  its  Ecclesiastical  Society. 
He  belongs  to  the  University,  Country,  and  Contemporary  clubs 
of  Bridgeport. 

He  was  married  February  22,  1901,  in  Bridgeport,  to  Alice 
Burr,  daughter  of  the  late  Judge  Frederic  Byron  Hall.  They 
have  one  son,  Bradford,  born  December  5,  1901,  now  attending 
the  Bridgeport  High  School. 

A  nephew,  Allen  Hitchcock  Boardman,  was  graduated  from 
Yale  College  in  1916. 


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Gerald  Mark  Borden 

Residence,  35  East  Fifty-first  Street,  New  York  City 

Borden  is  a  son  of  Henry  Lee  and  Theresa  (McConnelough) 
Borden,  who  were  married  June  20,  1866,  and  had  one  other  son, 
Louis  Lambert  Borden.  Henry  L.  Borden  was  born  January  18, 
1828,  in  Galveston,  Texas,  but  spent  most  of  his  life  until  1885 


GERALD    M.   BORDEN 


in  Chicago,  and  thereafter  in  New  York  City.  He  died  in  Los 
Angeles,  California,  November  21,  1902.  His  parents,  Gail 
and  Mary  (Mercer)  Borden,  came  to  New  York  from  Scotland 
about  1800.  Theresa  McConnelough  was  born  July  19,  1846, 
in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  the  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Kelly)  McConnelough,  natives  of  Ireland,  who  settled  in 
Wilmington,  Delaware,  in  1824. 

Gerald  Borden  was  born  January  28,  1871,  in  Chicago,  Illinois, 
and  entered  Yale  from  the  Senior  Class  of  Christian  Brothers 
College,  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

After  two  years  at  Northwestern  University  Law  School  he 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1895  and  was  admitted  to  the 


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Illinois  Bar  the  same  year.  He  practiced  in  Chicago  until  1901, 
when  he  went  to  Pasadena,  California,  and  remained  somewhat 
over  a  year.  In  1903  he  removed  to  New  York  City  to  accept 
an  executive  position  with  the  United  Lead  Company  and  a  little 
later  he  was  elected  secretary  and  vice-president  of  the  American 
Smelting  &  Refining  Company.     He  held  this  position  until  1908. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  belongs  to  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church. 

He  was  married  February  14,  1898,  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  to 
Lucille,  daughter  of  Theophile  Papin,  a  broker,  and  Emily 
(Carlin)   Papin.     They  have  no  children. 


Charles  Wilder  Bosworth 


Lawyer,   Court  Square  Theatre  Building,   Springfield,  Massachusetts 

F  Charles  W.  Bosworth,  son 

of  Henry  W.  Bosworth,  was 
born  August  28,  1871,  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  was  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Springfield  High 
School.  He  received  a  Berke- 
ley Premium  in  Freshman 
year. 

After  graduation  he  entered 

his  father's  office  and  studied 

law,  being  admitted  to  the  bar 

in  June,  1894.     He  has  since 

practiced    in    Springfield. 

Upon  the  establishment  of  a 

police  commission  in  1901  he 

was    elected    a    commissioner 

and  served  in  this  office  until 

1907,    when    he    resigned    in 

order  to   serve  as   the   city's 

legal  advisor  in  promoting  a 

plan  for  the  river-front  development.     Although  he  has  never 

held  any  elective  position  he  has  been  prominent  in  municipal 

affairs.     He  was  appointed  referee  in  bankruptcy  for  the  United 


CHARLES    W.    BOSWORTH 


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States  District  Court  for  Hampden  County,  Massachusetts,  in 
1908.  He  has  been  president  of  the  Union  Trust  Company  since 
1906  and  in  October,  1913,  he  was  elected  a  director  of  the  Boston 
and  Maine  Railroad.  He  has  been  active  in  alumni  matters  and 
served  as  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Western 
Massachusetts  in  1905  and  as  vice-president  in  191 3. 
He  has  not  married. 


HARRY    H.    BOTTOME 


Harry  Howard  Bottome 

General  solicitor,  New  York  Life  Insurance  Company,  346  Broadway, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  West  Orange,  New  Jersey 

Bottome  is  the  youngest  son  of  Francis  and  Margaret 
(McDonald)  Bottome,  who  were  married  September  17,  1850, 
and  had  three  other  sons,  now  deceased  :  Rev.  William  McDonald 
Bottome,  B.A.  Dickinson  College  1873,  M.A.  Oxford,  England; 
Rev.  George  Hill  Bottome,  B.A.  Yale  1883,  B.D.  General 
Theological  Seminary  1887;  Frank  Archer  Bottome,  M.D. 
Columbia  1889,  also  studied  at  the  University  of  Berlin.      Rev. 


146  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Francis  Bottome  (born  May  26,  1823,  in  Belper,  England,  died 
June  29,  1894,  in  Tavistock,  England)  in  1846  became  a  Wesleyan 
missionary  among  the  Blackfeet  Indians  in  Canada.  Later  he 
was  installed  pastor  of  the  Sands  Street  Methodist  Church  in 
Brooklyn  and  in  1850  entered  the  New  York  East  Conference, 
serving  in  a  number  of  churches  until  1870,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  New  York  Conference.  He  received  the  honorary 
degree  of  D.D.  from  Dickinson  College  in  1873.  His  wife  (born 
December  29,  1827,  in  New  York  City,  and  died  there  November 
14,  1906)  was  the  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Willis) 
McDonald.  She  was  interested  in  various  activities  of  the 
Methodist  Church,  many  charitable  and  philanthropic  organiza- 
tions and  movements,  was  the  founder  and  first  president  of  the 
King's  Daughters,  and  for  many  years  contributing  editor  of  the 
Ladies'  Home  Journal. 

Harry  H.  Bottome  was  born  June  26,  1870,  in  Yonkers,  New 
York.  He  attended  several  preparatory  schools  and  graduated 
from  Pennington  Seminary  in  Pennington,  New  Jersey,  in  1888. 
From  1888  to  1889  he  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Equitable  Life 
Insurance  Company,  entering  college  in  the  fall  of  1889.  He 
rowed  in  the  Academic  eight-oared  shell  in  the  fall  race  of  that 
year,  and  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  New  York  Life 
Insurance  Company  and  pursued  his  law  studies  at  the  New  York 
Law  School  at  the  same  time,  graduating  in  June,  1895,  with  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  cum  laude.  He  was  admitted  to  the  New  York 
Bar  the  same  month.  He  served  as  assistant  solicitor  of  the  New 
York  Life  Insurance  Company  until  he  was  appointed  general 
solicitor  in  1903.  In  June,  1905,  he  resigned  this  position  and 
entered  private  practice  in  New  York  City,  specializing  in  the 
law  of  life  insurance.  In  191 1  he  re-entered  the  employ  of  the 
New  York  Life  Insurance  Company  and  was  appointed  general 
solicitor  in  1913,  which  position  he  still  occupies. 

From  1896  to  1903  he  was  a  member  of  the  7th  Regiment, 
New  York  National  Guard.  His  clubs  are  the  University,  Yale, 
Essex  County  Country,  New  Jersey,  and  Seaview  Golf. 

He  was  married  February  2y,  1904,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Mary  Madeline,  daughter  of  Richard  Morgan.  They  were 
divorced  December  28,  1913. 

He  was  married  a  second  time,  April  16,  19 18,  in  New  York 
City,  to  Mrs.  Marion  Letcher  Ward,  daughter  of  George  Brown 
Letcher,  deceased,  of  Nicholasville,  Kentucky. 


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Howard  Sidney  Bowns 

Major,  Quartermaster  Corps,  Fuel  and  Forage  Division,  New  York 

District  Office 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Pattison  &  Bowns,  1  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Residence,  8  Montague  Terrace,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

Bowns  is  the  only  son  of  Henry  Edgar  and  Felicite  Marie 
(Menuez)  Bowns,  who  were  married  November  19,  1869,  and 
had  three  other  children,  daughters:  Blanche  E.  (Bowns)  Begg, 
Felice  M.  Bowns,  who  attended  Smith  College,  and  Cecile  M. 


HOWARD    S.   BOWNS 


Bowns.  Henry  Bowns  was  born  February  4,  1831,  in  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  where  his  family  had  come  from  England 
in  the  previous  century,  and  died  October  10,  191 1,  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York.  He  was  connected  with  Candee  &  Company  of  New 
Haven  until  1865,  when  he  went  into  the  coal  business  in  New 
York  with  Packer  &  Company  and  later  in  his  own  name.  His 
first  wife  was  Grace  L.  Beach,  to  whom  he  was  married  on  May 
8,  1855.  Our  classmate's  mother  was  born  September  18,  1850, 
in  Louisville,  Ohio,  where  her  parents  had  come  from  France  in 

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Howard  S.  Bowns  was  born  January  28,  1873,  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  and  was  prepared  at  Adelphi  Academy  and  the 
Polytechnic  Institute  in  Brooklyn.  He  received  a  high  oration 
Junior  and  an  oration  Senior  appointment,  and  was  elected  to 
Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  coxswain  of  the  University  Crew  in 
1 89 1  and  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

He  has  been  engaged  in  the  wholesale  coal  business  in  New 
York  City  since  graduation,  and  since  1902  has  been  in  partner- 
ship with  Mr.  Gardner  Pattison,  under  the  firm  name  of  Pattison 
&  Bowns.  He  is  treasurer  of  the  Bowns-Pattison  Transporta- 
tion Company  of  New  Jersey  and  is  president  of  the  Buck  Ridge 
Coal  Mining  Company  and  the  Johnson  City  Store  Company  of 
Shamokin,  Pennsylvania,  and  of  the  Alcorn  Lumber  Company 
of  New  Brunswick,  Canada. 

On  May  6,  1918,  he  was  commissioned  a  Major  in  the 
Ordnance  Officers'  Reserve  Corps,  and  assigned  to  service  in 
the  Fuel  Section,  Control  Bureau,  at  Washington,  in  charge  of 
anthracite  coal.  Later  he  was  transferred  to  the  Quartermaster 
Corps  and  assigned  to  the  Fuel  and  Forage  Division. 

He  is  a  Democrat.  He  attends  the  Episcopal  Church.  His 
clubs  are  the  Yale,  Metropolitan,  Lotus,  Manhattan,  and  Whist 
of  New  York;  the  Hamilton,  Crescent,  and  Brooklyn  of 
Brooklyn ;  the  Richmond  County  Country  Club  and  the  Seaview 
Golf  Club. 

He  was  married  January  15,  1902,  in  Bay  Ridge,  New  York, 
to  Mary  Bliss  Kelley  (Mrs.  F.  Roger  Whittlesey),  daughter  of 
George  V.  and  Frances  (Bliss)  Kelley.  They  have  two  children, 
both  born  in  Brooklyn:  Priscilla,  born  December  13,  1902,  and 
Howard  Sidney,  Jr.,  born  March  6,  1905. 

Bowns  writes :  "Principal  hobby  and  recreation  is  big  game 
hunting  in  the  North.     Bashful — and  don't  talk  much." 


Henry  Dana  Bradley 

Bradley  was  a  son  of  Dana  A.  and  Caroline  L.  (Tuttle)  Brad- 
ley, who  were  married  April  28,  1857,  and  had  one  other  child, 
Frederic  Wakeman  Bradley  (died  November  24,  1918,  in  East 
Haven,  Connecticut).  Dana  A.  Bradley  (born  December  15, 
1824)   was  a  son  of  Dana  and  Mehitable  Bradley;    the  family 


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settled  in  East  Haven  toward  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
having  emigrated  from  England  in  1635  in  the  ship  Elizabeth. 
Caroline  L.  (Tuttle)  Bradley  (born  December  6,  1835)  was  the 
daughter  of  William  Frederic  Tuttle. 

Henry  Dana  Bradley  was 
born  September  1,  1870,  in 
New  Haven,  Connecticut,  and 
was  prepared  for  college  at 
the  Hillhouse  High  School. 

For  three  years  after  grad- 
uation he  was  a  surveyor  in 
New  Haven,  but  in  1897  he 
became  associated  with  the 
Photene  Company,  dealers  in 
electrical  supplies  in  Brook- 
lyn, New  York.  In  1898  he 
served  as  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Eagle  Realty  Com- 
pany, New  York  City,  and 
from  1898  to  December,  1902, 
he  was  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  and  insurance  business 
in  his  own  name  in  Brooklyn. 
He  left  his  place  of  business 
at  that  time  and  has  not  been 
heard  of  since. 

By  the  provisions  of  the  will  of  his  brother  the  estate  is  left 
to  Henry  D.  Bradley,  and  a  special  provision  is  made  that  a  search 
of  the  country  should  be  made  to  locate  him  if  possible.  Six 
years  ago,  on  the  death  of  the  mother,  in  order  that  the  estate 
might  be  settled,  he  was  declared  legally  dead. 


HENRY    D.   BRADLEY 


William  Edwin  Breckenridge 

Associate    in   mathematics,    Teachers    College,    Columbia   University,    and 

head  of  the  mathematics  department,  Stuyvesant  High  School, 

New  York  City 

Residence,  21   Sycamore  Avenue,  Mount  Vernon,  New  York 

Breckenridge    is    a    son   of  John    Albert    and    Harriet    Eliza 
(Kellogg)  Breckenridge,  who  were  married  November  10,  1868, 


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and  had  one  other  son,  John  Eliot  Breckenridge,  Yale  '96.  John 
A.  Breckenridge  (born  February  19,  1842,  in  Palmer,  Massa- 
chusetts) is  the  son  of  Azel  and  Eliza  (Smith)  Breckenridge  of 
Palmer.      The  family  emigrated   from  Scotland  to  Ireland   in 

1720  and  in  1727  came  to 
America  and  settled  at 
Palmer.  Mr.  Breckenridge 
was  the  proprietor  of  a  retail 
shoe  store  as  well  as  a  paint- 
ing business.  His  wife,  who 
was  born  June  20,  1842,  in 
South  Hadley,  Massachusetts, 
the  daughter  of  John  and 
Laura  (Chapin)  Kellogg,  died 
in  Palmer,  June  6,  1900. 

William  E.  Breckenridge 
was  born  September  28,  1869, 
in  Palmer,  and  prepared  for 
college  at  the  local  high 
school.  He  received  disser- 
tation appointments  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Yale  Union. 

He  commenced  teaching  in 
the  fall  of  1893  at  Siglar's 
School,  spent  the  following 
year  at  the  Haverford  Gram- 
mar School,  and  from  1895  to  1899  was  in  the  Montclair  High 
School.  He  has  since  taught  in  New  York  City,  from  1900  to 
1905  in  Peter  Cooper  High  School,  and  since  1905  in  the  Stuyve- 
sant  High  School.  On  July  1,  191 1,  he  was  appointed  lecturer  in 
mathematics  in  Teachers  College,  Columbia,  and  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  associate  in  1915.  He  writes  :  "My  chief  interest  is 
in  making  mathematics  democratic, — i.  e.,  of  the  most  use  to  the 
most  people,  by  administrative  work  in  a  technical  high  school 
of  4,700  boys,  by  lectures  in  Teachers  College,  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, on  'The  Teaching  of  Mathematics/  and  by  editorial  work 
on  books  and  periodicals." 

In  1902  Breckenridge  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Yale, 
having  completed  the  requirements  in  absentia,  and  in  1903  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  American  Mathematical  Society. 
He  has  served  as  chairman  of  the  department  of  mathematics  of 


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the  New  York  City  High  School  Teachers  Association  (1906) 
and  vice-president  of  the  Association  of  Teachers  of  Mathematics 
of  the  Middle  States  and  Maryland  (1907).  The  textbook, 
"Shop  Problems  in  Mathematics,"  by  Breckenridge,  Mersereau 
and  Moore,  is  now  in  its  seventh  edition. 


BRECKENRIDGE  S   HOME 


He  is  a  member  of  the  Chester  Hill  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Mount  Vernon,  and  is  president  of  the  Men's  Club. 
In  politics  he  is  an  Independent  Republican.  Regarding  war 
service  he  says :  "Have  furnished  the  Government  with  trained 
men  for  expert  computing  in  making  Range  Tables  for  the  big 
guns  at  the  Sandy  Hook  Proving  Grounds,  Fort  Hancock,  New 
Jersey,  where  the  first  tests  are  made  of  anti-aircraft  and  other 
guns.  For  the  war  work  of  deepening  the  rivers  and  harbor  of 
New  York  City  to  admit  freer  passage  of  battleships,  he  has 
supplied  the  engineers  of  the  War  Department  with  fifty  young 
men  trained  in  the  technical  work  of  surveying,  drafting,  and 
computing.  Other  war  service  consists  of  promoting  sales  of 
War  Savings  Stamps  and,  as  president  of  the  Associated 
Charities  of  Mount  Vernon,  helping  to  care  for  the  poor  of  the 
city  during  the  coal  and  food  famine.  Mrs.  Breckenridge  is 
vice-chairman  of  the  Red  Cross  of  Mount  Vernon.  My  son 
aided  the  cause  as  a  farm  cadet  from  May  to  October,  19 17." 

He  was  married  July  12,  1899,  in  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  to 
Addie  Louise,  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Frances  (Harvey) 
Rogers.  They  have  one  son,  Harvey  Kellogg,  born  October  28, 
1902,  in  Mount  Vernon,  New  York,  who  is  attending  the  Mount 
Vernon   High    School.      Mrs.   Breckenridge   is   a   graduate   of 


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Monson  Academy  and  before  her  marriage  was  director  of  music 
at  the  Westfield  (Massachusetts)  State  Normal  School,  and 
assistant  principal  of  the  State  Street  Grammar  School,  Spring- 
field. 


THOMAS    H.    BREEZE 


Thomas  Hamilton  Breeze 


Lawyer,   Insurance  Exchange,  433   California   Street,   San  Francisco, 

California 

Residence,  Hillsborough    (Post  Office,  San  Mateo),  California 

Breeze  is  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Louisa  (McCrea)  Breeze,  who 
were  married  August  10,  1865,  and  had  in  all  six  children,  four 
of  whom  are  still  living:  William  Francis  Breeze,  Ph.B.  Yale 
1889,  Louisa  Breeze,  and  Mary  Frances  (Breeze)  Benson, 
whose  son,  Lieutenant  Thomas  Mardenbro  Benson,  5th  Cavalry, 
U.  S.  A.,  is  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1917  S. 
Thomas  Breeze  (born  in  October,  1820,  in  Killileagh,  near  Bel- 
fast, Ireland),  son  of  Hamilton  Breeze,  came  to  the  United 
States  about  1837  and  lived  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  prior  tc  1848. 
In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  started  for  California  and  arrived  in 


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San  Francisco  in  April,  1849,  having  come  via  the  Isthmus.  He 
remained  in  San  Francisco  until  his  death,  April  6,  1874,  and 
was  a  partner  in  the  wholesale  drygoods  firm  of  Murphy,  Grant 
&  Company.  His  wife  was  born  April  22,  1834,  in  Killileagh, 
the  daughter  of  Allen  and  Matilda  (Thistlethwaite)  McCrea, 
and  died  January  12,  1913,  in  San  Francisco. 

Thomas  H.  Breeze  was  born  December  27,  1871,  in  San 
Francisco,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  a  tutor.  He  received 
a  Berkeley  Premium  in  Latin  composition  Sophomore  year  and 
a  first  dispute  appointment  in  Senior  year.  He  is  a  member  of 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

Continuing  at  Yale  two  years  longer  he  received  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  cum  laude  in  June,  1895,  was  admitted  to  the  Con- 
necticut Bar  the  same  year,  and  in  1896  to  the  California  Bar. 
After  one  year  in  San  Francisco  he  went  to  Stockton,  remaining 
until  1900,  when  he  returned  to  San  Francisco,  where  he  has 
since  practiced.  He  was  associated  with  the  firm  of  Reddy, 
Campbell  &  Metson  from  July,  1900,  to  January,  1903,  when  he 
was  admitted  to  membership  in  the  firm  of  Campbell,  Metson  & 
Campbell.     Since  1905  he  has  practiced  independently. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  San  Francisco.  In 
politics  he  has  Republican  "tendencies." 

He  was  married  August  5,  1905,  in  Menlo  Park,  California, 
to  Frances  Hay,  daughter  of  Austin  Dickinson  Moore,  B.A. 
Princeton  1852,  and  Frances  Jane  (Phillips)  Moore.  They 
have  two  sons :  Thomas  Hamilton,  Jr.,  born  October  24,  1906, 
in  San  Francisco,  and  Austin  Dickinson  Moore,  born  April  26, 
191 1,  in  Menlo  Park. 

Breeze  writes:  "Absent  but  not  forgetting — and  I  hope  not 
altogether  forgotten.  The  friendships  of  college  days  are  to  me 
just  as  real  to-day  as  they  were  twenty-five  years  ago.  Some 
day  I  shall  get  East  when  those  two  great  essentials — time  and 
money — coincide.  The  chief  plan,  aim,  special  interest,  and 
hobby  of  myself  and  my  wife  are  to  make  good  Yale  men  out  of 
two  rather  promising  boys." 


*George  Justus  Briggs 

Died  June  15,  191 1 

George  J.  Briggs,  son  of  George  Washington  and  Mary  Anna 
(Arnold)    Briggs,   was   born   July   23,    1871,   in   Grosvenordale, 


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Connecticut,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Worcester  (Massachusetts) 
Academy.     He  received  a  second  dispute  Junior  and  a  colloquy- 
Senior  appointment,  and  was  a  member  of  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 
The  year  following  graduation  he  taught  in  the  private  school 

of   John    Leal,    Yale   '74,    in 
r  1       Plainfield,    New    Jersey,    but 

then  engaged  in  business. 
From  1894  to  1897  he  was  the 
Providence  (Rhode  Island) 
representative  of  Leonard  & 
Ellis,  dealers  in  oils,  Boston; 
from  1897  to  1900  he  repre- 
sented the  American  Trading 
Company  in  Yokohama, 
Japan;  from  1900  to  1905  was 
the  sole  agent  in  Japan  for 
valvoline  oils  of  the  Crew- 
Levick  Company,  and  during 
1905  he  was  the  general  agent 
in  Japan  for  the  White  Auto- 
mobile Company.  For  three 
years  after  his  return  to  the 
United  States  in  1906  he  was 
engaged  in  raising  poultry  at 
Petuluna,  California.  In 
December,  1909,  he  was  ap- 
pointed general  agent  in  Rhode  Island  of  the  White  Automobile 
Company. 

He  died  June  15,  191 1,  after  a  short  illness  from  dysentery  at 
Atlanta,  Georgia,  where  he  was  spending  a  vacation.  He  was 
buried  at  Anthony,  Rhode  Island,  near  his  old  home. 

He  was  married  September  28,  1902,  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, to  Sarah  Marvine  Giberson  of  St.  Johns,  Ohio.  They 
had  no  children. 


GEORGE   J.   BRIGGS 


Theodore  Louis  Bristol 

President  and  treasurer  of  the  Ansonia  Water  Company,  100  Main  Street, 
Ansonia,  Connecticut 

Residence,  67  North  Cliff  Street,  Ansonia,  Connecticut 

Bristol    is    a    son    of    Charles    Edward    and    Frances    Ellen 
(Bartholomew)  Bristol,  who  were  married  September  17,  1867, 


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and  had  three  other  sons :  Charles  Edward  Bristol,  Yale  ex- 96, 
Howard  Bartholomew  (died  in  infancy),  and  Ralph  Bristol, 
Yale  '03.  The  Bristol  family  settled  first  at  New  Haven  about 
1650,  Henry  Bristol  dying  in  that  city  in  1695 ;  they  later 
removed  to  Milford,  Connecticut.  Charles  E.  Bristol  was  born 
in  Derby,  December  21,  1847,  and  died  in  Ansonia  in  May,  1892, 
the  son  of  Charles  Bristol,  a  shoemaker,  and  Harriet  (Bradley) 
Bristol.  He  was  postmaster  of  Ansonia  for  sixteen  years  pre- 
vious to  Cleveland's  administration  (1869-85)  and  was  vice- 
president  of  the  Ansonia  National  Bank.  His  wife,  descended 
from  William  Bartholomew  of  England,  who  came  to  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  in  1634,  and  afterwards  lived  in  Ipswich,  was  the 
daughter  of  Jeremiah  Hotchkiss  Bartholomew,  a  manufacturer 
of  Ansonia,  and  Polly  H.  Root  of  Farmington.  She  was  born 
October  5,  1848,  and  died  October  7,  1908,  in  Ansonia. 

Theodore  L.  Bristol  was  born  April  25,  1870,  in  Ansonia,  and 
prepared  at  the  high  school  in  that  town  and  at  Phillips-Exeter. 


r     - 


THEODORE   L.    BRISTOL 


He  received  colloquy  appointments  and  honors  in  natural  and 
physical  sciences  in  Senior  year.  He  substituted  occasionally  on 
the  Class  Crew,  and  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and 
Wolf's  Head. 


156  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  became  identified  with  the 
Bristol  Drug  Company  and  the  McArthur  Hypophosphite  Com- 
pany as  treasurer  and  now,  in  addition  to  this  office,  he  is 
president  of  the  former  and  secretary  of  the  latter  firm.  In 
1903  he  was  made  president  and  manager  (now  president  and 
treasurer)  of  the  Ansonia  Water  Company,  a  director  of  the 
Ansonia  National  Bank,  and  treasurer  (president  also  now)  of 
the  Ansonia  Novelty  Company,  and  in  19 13  he  was  elected 
president  of  the  Ansonia  Forest  Products  Company.  He  is 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Lumber  Manufacturers  Associa- 
tion of  Southern  New  England  and  a  director  of  the  Morris 
Plan  Company  of  the  Lower  Naugatuck  Valley. 

He  was  president  of  the  Connecticut  Forestry  Association 
from  1909  to  19 1 3,  for  one  term  held  this  place  on  the  Board 
of  Public  Works  of  Ansonia,  and  was  a  director  of  the  American 
Forestry  Association.  In  1903  he  represented  Ansonia  in  the 
General  Assembly  of  Connecticut. 

He  is  the  local  representative  of  the  State  Council  of  National 
Defense,  campaign  manager  of  the  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
War  Fund  campaigns,  fuel  and  food  administrator,  chairman  of 
the  War  Savings  Committee,  and  of  the  Ansonia  War  Bureau. 
He  is  serving  as  a  sergeant  in  the  Ansonia  Home  Guard  Reserve 
Company. 

He  is  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  the  Graduates  Club  of  New 
Haven. 

He  was  married  October  5,  1893,  m  Ansonia,  to  Florence 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Melvina  (Farrel)  Espe.  They  have  five 
children,  all  born  in  Ansonia:  Theodore  Louis,  Jr.,  Class  Boy, 
born  May  6,  1895;  Frances  Bartholomew,  born  June  21,  1899; 
Florence,  born  July  16,  1903;  Elleda,  born  May  3,  1905,  and 
John  Thorvald,  born  March  7,  191 1. 


*Frank  James  Brown 

Died  February  14,  1900 

Frank  J.  Brown,  son  of  Benjamin  S.  Brown,  was  born  in 
Lander,  Warren  County,  Pennsylvania,  on  February  22,  1866. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Jamestown  Union  School,  James- 
town, New  York,  and  at  the  Collegiate  School  in  that  city.  In 
he  entered  Yale  and  earned  his  expenses  by  various  means ; 


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at  first  he  worked  for  one  of  the  daily  papers,  then  went  into 
the  Co-op,  was  for  a  time  superintendent  of  the  Boys'  Club  con- 
ducted by  the  United  Workers,  and  during  Junior  and  Senior 
years  was  principal  of  a  public  evening  school.  He  received 
colloquy  rank  in  his  college 
work,  was  editor  of  the  Senior 
Class  Book  and  in  the  Law 
School  was  one  of  the  editors 
of  the  Yale  Shingle. 

After  graduation  from  the 
College  he  entered  the  School 
of  Law  and  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1895.  He 
was  then  admitted  to  the  bar 
and  opened  an  office  with 
Judge  A.  McClellan  Mathew- 
son,  1884  L.  In  July,  1897, 
he  became  city  attorney  of 
New  Haven,  and  discharged 
his  duties  with  an  evenness  of 
temperament,  fairness,  and 
freedom  from  prejudice,  ap- 
parent to  all  with  whom  he 
came  into  official  contact. 
The  strain  of  constant  applij 
cation  to  which  he  had  held 

himself  from  the  time  he  entered  college  at  length  became  evi- 
dent, and  in  the  fall  of  1898  he  was  obliged  to  relinquish  his 
work  for  a  time.  He  returned  somewhat  benefited  but  again 
had  to  give  up  his  work. 

His  death  occurred,  from  anaemia,  in  New  Haven,  on  Febru- 
ary 14,  1900. 

He  had  not  married. 


FRANK    J.    BROWN 


Lawrence  Edward  Brown 

Lawyer,  32  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  64  Herkimer  Street,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

Brown  is  a  son  of  Edward  Flint  and  Eleanor  (Bonney)  Brown, 
who  were  married  April  22,  1869.      Three  other  sons  attended 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Yale, — Benjamin  W.  B.  Brown,  ^r-1891,  Arthur  F.  Brown, 
Ph.B.  1896,  and  Alfred  J.  Brown,  B.A.  1899,  M.D.  Columbia 
I9°3> — and  a  daughter,  Edna  Florence  Brown  (Mrs.  John  F. 
Wherry),  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Barnard  in  1907. 
Edward  F.  Brown  (born  September  3,  1839,  in  Sebago,  Maine; 

died  September  2j,  1909,  in 
New  York  City)  was  grad- 
uated at  Yale  in  1863  and 
then  located  in  New  York 
City,  where  he  practiced  law. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Federal  Club  of  New 
York;  St.  John's  College, 
Maryland,  conferred  upon 
him  the  honorary  degree  of 
LL.D.  in  1893.  His  brothers, 
Anselm  B.  and  Horace  A. 
Brown,  were  graduated  at 
Yale  in  1867  and  1863  with 
the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  LL.B. 
respectively.  His  ancestors 
settled  in  Concord,  and  his 
great-grandfather  was  David 
Brown  who  commanded  the 
Continental  troops  at  the  bat- 
lawrence  e.  brown  tle  0f  Concord  Bridge.     Mrs. 

Brown  is  the  daughter  of 
Benjamin  West  Bonney,  B.A.  Dartmouth  1824,  and  Adrianna 
(Rapelje)  Bonney,  and  is  of  English  and  Dutch  descent.  She 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  March  2,  1850. 

Lawrence  Edward  Brown  was  born  March  2,  1872,  in  New 
York  City,  and  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Massachusetts.  He  received  a  dissertation  appoint- 
ment Senior  year. 

The  first  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  the  Yale  School, 
New  York  City,  at  the  same  time  commencing  the  study  of  law. 
In  June,  1897,  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  and  has 
since  practiced  in  New  York  City.  From  1898  to  1906  he  was 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hone  &  Brown  but  is  now  in  independent 
practice.     He  served  in  the  State  Legislature  in  1897. 

He  was  married  June  1,  1906,  in  New  York  City,  to  Janet 


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59 


Lamond,  daughter  of  George  Massey  (deceased)  and  Margaret 
(Lamond)  Massey.  They  have  two  sons,  both  born  in  New 
York  City:  Lawrence  E.,  Jr.,  born  March  19,  1907,  and  Stuart 
Flint,  born  April  25,  191 1. 


Wendell  Greene  Brownson 

Lawyer,  Court  Square  Theatre  Building,  31  Elm  Street,  Springfield, 

Massachusetts 

Residence,  27  Westminster   Street,   Springfield,   Massachusetts 

Brownson  is  a  son  of  Dr.  William  Greene  and  Caroline  Louise 
(Barstow)  Brownson,  who  were  married  September  5,  1854,  and 
had  four  other  children,  three  sons  and  a  daughter:  William 
Clarence  Brownson,  M.D.  New  York  University  1878,  Frances 
M.    (Brownson)    Beers,   Carleton  Lewis  Brownson,   B.A.  Yale 


WENDELL   G.    BROWNSON 


1887,  Ph.D.  1897,  and  Carl  Ward  Brownson  (died  in  December, 
1865).  William  G.  Brownson  was  born  August  6,  1830,  in 
Peterboro,  New  York,  of  English  parentage,  his  ancestors  hav- 
ing   settled    in    Hartford,    Connecticut,    about    1650.      He    was 


160  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

graduated  from  the  New  York  State  Normal  School  in  1853 
and  taught  school  until  1862  when  he  took  up  the  study  of 
medicine.  He  received  an  honorary  M.A.  degree  from  Hamilton 
College  in  1864,  and  an  M.D.  from  New  York  University  in 
1865.  He  served  as  a  surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  Army,  1864-65,  and 
then  practiced  his  profession  in  New  Canaan,  Connecticut,  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  January  3,  1899,  in  Noroton,  Con- 
necticut. Mrs.  Brownson,  who  was  also  of  New  England 
colonial  stock,  was  born  September  1,  183 1,  in  Oswego,  New 
York,  and  was  graduated  at  the  New  York  State  Normal  School 
in  1854. 

Wendell  G.  Brownson  was  born  May  26,  1869,  in  New  Canaan, 
and  prepared  for  college  at  Dr.  King's  School  in  Stamford.  He 
received  a  first  dispute  Junior  and  a  dissertation  Senior  appoint- 
ment and  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Union. 

After  two  years  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law  he  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  In  December,  1895,  he  was  admitted  to  the 
Massachusetts  Bar  and  has  since  practiced  in  Springfield.  He 
formed  a  partnership  with  James  L.  Doherty,  Bowdoin  '89, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Doherty  &  Brownson  in  January,  1903, 
but  has  practiced  alone  since  1914. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  in  November,  1916,  was 
the  unsuccessful  candidate  for  district  attorney  of  Hampden 
and  Berkshire  counties. 

In  191 3  he  was  elected  a  vice-president  of  the  Yale  Law  School 
Alumni  Association;  in  1915  treasurer  of  the  University  Club 
of  Springfield;  in  June,  1916,  secretary  of  the  Nyasset  Club,  and 
in  September,  1917,  president  of  the  Winthrop  Club,  both  of 
Springfield.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Country  and  Manch- 
conis  clubs,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Elks.  He  belongs 
to  the  First  Church  of  Christ,  Springfield. 

He  was  married  April  21,  1897,  in  Taunton,  Massachusetts, 
to  Adelaide  DeVille,  daughter  of  Alfred  C.  and  Liely  L. 
(Weeden)  Place.  They  had  one  son,  Alfred  Gardner,  born 
April  15,  1899,  in  Springfield,  now  a  student  at  Andover.  Mrs. 
Brownson  died  April  12,  1904. 

He  writes  :  ''My  life  has  been  rather  quiet  and  uneventful.  I 
have  practiced  law  steadily  since  my  admission  to  the  bar,  and 
cherish  no  particular  ambition  except  to  attain  success  and  honor 
in  that  profession.  My  principal  recreations  are  walking,  play- 
ing tennis,  and  bridge  whist.      Am  fond  of  travel,  and  usually 


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161 


spend  my  summer  vacation  enjoying  that  diversion,  although 
never  extensively.  Since  the  death  of  my  wife  in  1904  my 
mother,  who  is  a  widow,  has  made  her  home  with  me." 


C.    SANFORD   BULL 


Cornelius  Sanford  Bull 

Partner  in  the  firm  of  Holmes  &  Bull,  investment  brokers,  136  Grand 
Street,  Waterbury,  Connecticut 

Residence,  151  Hillside  Avenue,  Waterbury,  Connecticut 

His  father,  Cornelius  Wade  Bull  (born  April  8,  1839,  in 
Tallahassee,  Florida;  died  May  19,  1876,  in  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut), was  the  son  of  Jabez  Benedict  and  Mary  (Ford)  Bull, 
and  a  direct  descendant  of  Henry  Bull,  who  came  from  Eng- 
land in  the  James  in  1634,  went  to  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  in 
1637,  and  was  the  first  governor  of  that  colony.  A  graduate 
of  Yale  College  in  1863,  he  served  in  the  U.  S.  Navy  as  assistant 
paymaster  for  two  years  and  then  entered  the  Yale  Medical 
School  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1867.  He  married 
on  August  16,  1869,  Sarah  Alice,  daughter  of  Porter  and  Sarah 
Ann  (Allen)   Sanford.     Mrs.  Bull  was  born  in  Terry ville,  Con- 


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necticut,  April  9,  1850.  She  traces  her  descent  to  Governor 
William  Bradford  of  Plymouth  Colony. 

C.  Sanford  Bull  was  bom  June  2.J,  1871,  in  Terryville  and  was 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  Public  High  School.  He 
received  a  dissertation  Junior  appointment  and  a  dispute  Senior 
year,  and  was  a  member  of  Zeta  Psi. 

From  1893  to  1898  he  was  purchasing  agent  for  the  Water- 
bury  Watch  Company  and  then,  until  1905,  was  associated  with  the 
New  England  Watch  Company  in  the  same  place.  In  November, 
1905,  he  was  admitted  to  membership  in  the  firm  of  C.  L. 
Holmes  &  Company,  which  later  became  Holmes  &  Bull,  dealers 
in  investment  securities.  He  also  holds  the  positions  of  treasurer 
of  the  Waterbury  Castings  Company,  and  a  director  of  the 
Waterbury  Button  Company. 

Republican  in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Waterbury,  and  belongs  to  the  Waterbury 
Club  and  the  Waterbury  Country  Club. 

He  was  married  October  24,  1906,  in  Waterbury,  to  Helen 
Ives,  daughter  of  J.  Richard  and  Helen  (Lane)  Smith.  They 
have  no  children. 

He  writes:  "If  I  have  a  hobby  it  is  my  farm.  Principal 
products  are  apples  and  stones." 


*Ross  Burchard 

Died  November  14,  1918 

Burchard  was  the  son  of  Boardman  Burchard,  who  was 
born  in  Mentor,  Ohio,  May  26,  1823,  and  died  in  South  Norwalk, 
Connecticut,  May  8,  1910.  On  his  father's  side  he  was  of  French 
descent  (Alsace-Lorraine),  and  on  his  mother's  of  Irish.  Mr. 
Burchard  was  in  the  wholesale  drygoods  business  throughout  his 
life  and  was  a  partner  in  L.  O.  Wilson  &  Company,  New  York 
City,  and  John  V.  Farwell  &  Company,  Chicago.  His  wife, 
Lunette  Ross,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  January 
19,  1848,  and  died  in  South  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  November 
13,  1909.     She  was  of  Scotch  ancestry. 

Ross  Burchard  was  born  April  8,  1870,  in  New  York  City,  and 
prepared  for  college  by  tutor  in  South  Norwalk,  Connecticut. 
Tennis  was  his  principal  recreation  in  college  and  he  played  half- 
back on  the  Senior  Class  Football  Team. 


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163 


For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  in  Chicago  with  J.  V. 
Farwell  &  Company  and  from  1895  to  1912  he  was  employed 
as  purchasing  agent  by  the  same  company  in  New  York  City. 
During  19 12  he  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in  Nor- 


ROSS   BURCHARD 


walk,  but  since  January  1,  191 3,  he  had  been  with  Sweet-Orr  & 
Company,  Inc.,  manufacturers  of  workingmen's  clothing,  serving 
as  a  director  of  this  company  and  attending  especially  to  the  pur- 
chase of  materials. 

He  was  a  Democrat.  He  was  a  member  of  the  West  Side 
Tennis  Club,  New  York  City,  Knob  Country  Club,  South  Nor- 
walk,  Norwalk  Country  Club,  Norwalk,  and  Wee  Burn  Golf  Club, 
Noroton. 

On  November  14,  1918,  Burchard  died  suddenly  of  apoplexy 
at  his  home  in  Norwalk. 

He  was  married  October  2*j ,  1904,  in  Newburgh,  New  York, 
to  Mabel,  daughter  of  Clayton  Emmett  and  Charity  Louise 
(Manning)  Sweet.  They  have  one  daughter,  Mabel  Manning, 
born  September  23,  1905,  in  Norwalk. 


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*Frank  Howard  Button 

Died  ^  November  1,  1902 

Frank  H.  Button,  son  of  William  E.  and  Louise  L.  (Fokkes) 
Button,  was  born  December  24,  1868,  in  Summit,  New  Jersey. 
The  father  was  a  farmer  and  when  the  son  entered  college  his 
home  was  in  Peekskill,  New  York. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Lyons  (New  York)  High  School  and 
at  Hopkins  Grammar  School ;  in  college  received  dispute  appoint- 
ments. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  the  New  York  Law  School 
and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.,  being  admitted  to  the  New 

York  Bar  in  September,  1895. 
From  that  time  he  practiced 
in  Buffalo,  as  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Button  &  Kean, 
making  a  specialty  of  com- 
mercial law.  He  was  secre- 
tary of  the  Lawyers'  Coopera- 
tive Union,  Inc.,  publishers 
of  the  Cooperative  Law  List. 
His  home  continued  to  be  in 
Peekskill,  where  he  died  of 
tuberculosis  on  November  1, 
1902. 

He  was  married  June  25, 
1895,  to  Maude,  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Martha  F.  Sultz- 
bach,  of  Patterson,  Kansas. 
They  had  one  child,  a  daugh- 
ter, Dorothy  Maude,  born 

FRANK    H.   BUTTON  JUty   27>    J^97' 


Harvey  Peters  Butz 

Pe  Ell,  Washington 

Butz  is  a  son  of  Jonathan  LaRos  Butz,  a  merchant,  and  Eliza 
Jane  Butz.  His  American  ancestry  dates  back  to  the  year  1720, 
when  John  Butz,  a  Bavarian,  landed  in  Philadelphia;  there  has 
since  been  an  intermixing  with  French  and  English.     Our  class- 


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165 


mate  was  born  April  8,  1871,  in  Breinigsville,  Pennsylvania,  and 
was  prepared  at  the  Kutztown  Normal  School  and  at  Muhlen- 
berg College,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1892. 

He  was  variously  engaged  in  studying,  traveling,  and  writing 


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HARVEY    P.    BUTZ 


occasionally  for  newspapers  for  two  years,  then  tutoring  for  a 
year,  before  entering  the  mercantile  business  in  Breinigsville.  He 
was  also  for  a  time  treasurer  of  the  Lyceum  Theater  in  Reading, 
Pennsylvania.  In  1905  he  went  to  the  Pacific  Coast  and,  until 
1909,  was  a  tutor  in  Los  Angeles ;  from  1909  to  1916  he  was 
cashier  of  the  Leslie  Grocery  Company  in  Seattle,  Washington, 
and  then  for  one  year  was  recuperating  in  San  Diego,  California. 
He  is  now  located  at  Pe  Ell,  Washington,  engaged  in  ranching. 


Nehemiah  Candee 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Keogh  &  Candee,  United  Bank  Building,   South 
Norwalk,  Connecticut 

Residence,  10  Arch  Street,  Norwalk,  Connecticut 

Candee  is  the  only  living  son  of  Jason  and  Caroline  Amelia 
(Canfield)    Candee,  who  were  married  in  February,   1850,  and 


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had  nine  children,  seven  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  surviv- 
ing daughter  is  Mrs.  P.  G.  McCollum,  of  Richmond,  Virginia. 
Jason  Candee,  a  farmer,  was  born  June  8,  1829,  in  Southbury, 
Connecticut,  and  died  May  18,  1913,  in  Dorset,  Virginia.     His 


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NEHEMIAH    CANDEE 


ancestors,  who  were  of  Welsh  and  French  origin,  came  to  New 
Haven  about  1647.  He  attended  Staples  Academy,  Easton, 
Connecticut,  and  spent  most  of  his  life  in  that  state.  His  wife, 
who  was  of  English  descent,  was  born  April  1,  1832,  in  Redding, 
Connecticut,  and  died  in  November,  1910,  in  Easton.  John 
Dutton  Candee,  B.A.  Yale  1847,  LL.B.  1849,  1S  a  cousin. 

Nehemiah  Candee  was  born  August  9,  1870,  in  Easton,  and 
was  prepared  at  Staples  Academy.  He  first  entered  Sheff  but 
after  one  year  transferred  to  the  College  as  a  member  of  '93. 
He  received  dispute  appointments  and,  while  taking  the  Law 
School  course,  was  an  editor  of  the  Shingle. 

Before  preparing  for  his  profession  he  taught  two  years  and 
then  with  two  years  of  study  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from 
Yale  in  1897.  The  first  year  he  spent  in  Chicago  with  Thompson, 
Clark  &  Wilkins,  but  in  1898  he  returned  to  New  Haven  and, 
after  assisting  in  the  Law  School  that  year,  became  a  member 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  167 

of  the  firm  of  Candee  &  Morse.  This  partnership  continued 
until  1907  and  during  this  period  (in  1901)  he  served  as  a  select- 
man. Another  year  was  spent  in  Chicago  in  the  firm  of 
Magruder,  Thompson  &  Candee,  which  was  followed,  in  1908, 
by  the  forming  of  his  present  partnership  with  John  Keogh, 
LL.B.  Yale  1897.  He  is  a  director  of  the  People's  Trust  Com- 
pany of  South  Norwalk. 

In  191 1  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of 
South  Norwalk  and,  in  1914,  a  director  of  the  Norwalk  Chamber 
of  Commerce.  He  represented  the  Town  of  Norwalk  in  the 
General  Assembly  in  1917  and  was  chairman  of  the  committee 
on  Forfeited  Rights,  and  a  member  of  the  committees  on  Banks 
and  on  Federal  Relations.  On  June  1,  19 17,  he  was  appointed 
judge  of  the  City  Court  of  Norwalk  for  a  two-year  term.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board  for  Draft  Registrants 
for  the  26th  Senatorial  District,  and  a  Four-Minute  man.  He 
was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  State  Convention  in  Hartford 
in  June,  191 8.  { 

He  is  president  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  South  Nor- 
walk Baptist  Church.  He  belongs  to  the  Norwalk  Club  and  to 
various  chapters  of  the  Masonic  order.  In  October,  1917,  he 
was  elected  grand  chancellor  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  for  the 
domain  of  Connecticut.  He  ranks  as  a  corporal  in  the  2d  Nor- 
walk Company,  Connecticut  State  Guard,  having  enlisted  in 
April,  191 7,  for  two  years. 

He  was  married  June  29,  1901,  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut, 
to  Annie  M.,  daughter  of  Mark  Bourne  Chunn,  a  planter  and 
magistrate  of  Maryland,  and  Annie  M.  (Dent)  Chunn.  They 
have  had  four  children:  Mark  Chunn  and  Marjorie  Dent,  born 
October  22,  1903,  in  New  Haven ;  Randolph  Frederick,  born 
June  29,  1905,  in  New  Haven,  and  died  July  14,  1909,  in  South 
Norwalk,  and  Dorothy  Caroline,  born  April  19,  191 1,  in  South 
Norwalk.  Mrs.  Candee  has  written  short  stories,  articles,  and 
verse  for  a  number  of  women's  and  children's  magazines.  Three 
of  her  brothers  were  graduated  at  Yale:  Mark  Wilson  Chunn, 
B.D.  1886,  Clay  Dent  Chunn,  B.D.  1889,  and  Frederick  Chunn, 
LL.B.  1895. 

Candee  writes:  "Have  a  very  keen  interest  in  public  affairs 
and  am  usually  on  the  stump  in  all  local,  state  and  national 
campaigns.  Try  to  keep  in  touch  with  literary  affairs  through 
my  wife's  interest  in  them.     My  boy  Mark  received  a  war  medal 


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as  boy  scout,  for  sale  of  Liberty  Bonds.  My  daughter  Marjorie 
has  taken  literary  prizes  for  articles  written  by  her,  and  my  little 
daughter  Dorothy  (age  six  and  a  half)  keeps  us  all  guessing  as 
to  future  achievements.     On  the  whole,  I  am  busy  and  happy." 


WILLIAM    T.    CAPPS 


William  Thomas  Capps 

Vice-president,  J.  Capps  &  Sons,  Ltd.,  1018  West  State  Street,  Jacksonville, 

Illinois 

Capps  is  a  son  of  William  Edward  and  Margaret  (Gallaher) 
Capps,  who  were  married  in  1866  and  had  three  other  children: 
James  Gallaher  Capps,  Sarah  Ellen  (Capps)  Tingle,  and  Alice 
A.  Capps.  The  father  was  born  in  1842  in  Jacksonville,  Illinois, 
and  spent  his  entire  life  in  that  town,  dying  in  September,  1896. 
He  was  engaged  in  the  woolen  manufacturing  business  as  vice- 
president  of  J.  Capps  &  Sons,  Ltd.  The  family  originally  lived 
in  North  Carolina.  Mrs.  Capps  was  born  in  1854,  in  Jackson- 
ville, and  died  there  in  1873.  Her  father  came  from  Ireland,  her 
mother  from  Germany.     Mr.  Capps  was  married  again  in  1880. 

William  T.  Capps  was  born  April  12,  1871,  in  Jacksonville,  and 
was  prepared  at  Whipple  Academy  and  at  Illinois  College.  He 
received  a  second  colloquy  Senior  appointment. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  169 

He  returned  to  his  home  town  after  graduation  and,  with  the 
exception  of  a  few  months  in  1896,  has  been  continuously 
engaged  in  the  family  business,  manufacturing  woolen  goods  and 
clothing  under  the  name  of  J.  Capps  &  Sons,  Ltd.  He  is  vice- 
president  of  this  company  and  a  director  of  the  Southern  Gypsum 
Company,  Inc. 

He  has  been  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  Church,  Jacksonville,  for 
ten  years. 

He  was  married  April  2.7,  1897,  in  Jacksonville,  to  Louisa  May, 
daughter  of  James  F.  and  Welthea  (Clark)  Potts.  Mrs.  Capps 
died  November  13,  1901. 

He  was  again  married  October  5,  1905,  in  Jacksonville,  to 
Louise,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Henshaw)  Stryker. 
They  have  three  children,  all  born  in  Jacksonville:  William 
Thomas,  Jr.,  born  February  12,  1908;  Henry  McClure,  born 
November  26,  191 1,  and  Elizabeth  Stryker,  born  April  11,  1913. 


Otho  Grandford  Cartwright 

Certified  public  accountant,  25  Broad  Street,  New  York  City,  and  director- 
manager  of  the  Westchester  County  Research  Bureau,   15 
Court  Street,  White  Plains,  New  York 

Residence,   126  Claremont  Avenue,   New  York  City 

Cartwright  is  the  only  son  of  Alphonso  Goodrich  and  Lovia  D. 
(Etheridge)  Cartwright,  who  were  married  March  6,  1864,  and 
had  one  other  child,  a  daughter,  who  died  in  childhood.  A.  G. 
Cartwright  was  born  August  29,  1839,  in  Alfred,  New  York, 
and  died  May  24,  1877,  in  Belmont,  New  York.  His  ancestors 
came  from  England  and  settled  at  Martha's  Vineyard  about  the 
beginning  of  the  eighteenth  century.  He  was  a  partner  in  a 
drug  business  before  and  for  a  few  years  after  the  Civil  War 
and  then  engaged  in  the  shoe  and  leather  business ;  he  served  as 
Captain,  Company  I,  85th  New  York  Volunteers,  from  1862  to 
1865.  His  wife,  Lovia  DeLery  Etheridge,  was  born  February  I, 
1844,  at  Roanoke  Island,  North  Carolina,  and  died  in  November, 
1907,  in  Belmont,  New  York.  She  is  a  descendant  of  Baron 
Lery,  who  emigrated  from  France  to  Cape  Breton  in  15 18,  then- 
returned  to  France.     Later  descendants  went  to  the  Carolinas. 

Otho  G.  Cartwright  was  born  September  7,  1869,  in  Belmont, 
and  was  prepared  at  Phillips-Andover.      In  college  he  received 


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dissertation  appointments,  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Union  and 
the  Andover  Club.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Track  Team  in 
1891,  1892,  and  1893,  and  was  a  substitute  on  the  Freshman 
Football  Team. 

He  writes :    "It  is  already  recorded  in  the  class  history  that 


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OTHO   G.    CARTWRIGHT 


Cartwright  taught  here  and  there  for  'X'  years.  My  present 
view  of  that  experience  is  that  'X'  years  is  too  large  a  number. 
I  regret  that  I  allowed  summer  vacation  roll  around  so  many 
times  before  becoming  really  active  in  the  field,  described  below, 
that  grew  more  and  more  attractive  every  year.  This  is  the 
only  serious  regret  that  I  have  over  my  teaching  experience. 

"That  experience  and  its  resultant  studies  in  history  and 
economics  led  me  more  and  more  into  investigations  of  American 
political,  social,  and  economic  institutions.  As  these  fields  opened 
out,  the  revelation  of  American  extravagance  and  American 
wastefulness  became  startling.  At  first  this  seemed  to  me 
perhaps  an  unavoidable  condition  when  viewed  in  connection  with 
our  unparalleled  national  growth,  and  of  the  wonderful  develop- 
ment of  industry,  science,  education,  and  culture  of  which  all 
true  Americans  are  so  justifiably  proud. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  171 

"But  the  conviction  grew  that,  as  civilization  develops,  waste 
ought  to  decrease.  Industrial  engineers  were  demonstrating 
every  day  the  economic  uses  of  by-products  from  material  that 
important  industries  had  formerly  thrown  away  as  waste.  Why 
should  not  social  waste  and  political  waste  be  reduced, — perhaps 
eliminated,  and  civilization  and  society  be  thereby  vastly  the 
gainer?  You  see  I  was  late  in  realizing  the  existence  of  some 
very  old  problems. 

"I  found  opportunity  to  discuss  these  problems  with  economists 
of  high  rank,  both  in  this  country  and  elsewhere.  Encouraged 
on  all  sides  by  the  views  of  such  men,  I  finally  decided  that  I 
could  serve  no  more  useful  purpose  in  life  than  to  contribute 
the  resources  at  my  command  toward  the  solution  of  such 
problems ;  i.  e.,  to  work  for  the  elimination  of  social,  economic, 
and  political  waste,  and  the  conservation  of  human  energy  within 
such  fields. 

"I  believe  that  I  am  fortunate  in  the  respect  that  I  have  been 
able  to  make  my  professional  vocation  cooperate  directly  with 
my  avocation  in  the  following  way. 

"Having  a  natural  mathematical  bent  and  a  fondness  for 
statistics,  accounts,  and  finance,  I  have  taken  the  New  York 
State  degree  of  Certified  Public  Accountant  (1916)  and  set  up 
in  the  practice  of  that  profession. 

"The  modern  profession  of  auditing  and  accounting  is  con- 
cerned directly  with  elimination  of  waste  in  business  and  industry, 
development  of  efficiency  therein,  and  the  conservation  of  busi- 
ness energy  and  business  resources.  Moreover,  the  work  of 
this  profession  is  encouraged  and  developed  by  the  increased 
profits  of  men  and  enterprises  who  use  our  services, — whether 
they  are  merchants,  manufacturers,  financiers,  professional  men, 
or  others.  Municipal  auditing  and  studies  of  governmental 
efficiency  in  general,  constitute  a  large  part  of  my  own  work  in 
that  profession. 

"So  far,  I  have  been  very  happy  in  my  work,  and  have  earned 
a  comfortable  livelihood.  There  are  no  roads  without  some 
rough  spots  and  I  have  to  acknowledge  that,  like  everyone  else, 
I  encounter  now  and  then  a  bump  in  life's  highway,  but  I  have 
met  no  obstacle  so  far  that  I  have  not  been  able  to  get  past  satis- 
factorily,— sometimes  with  the  help  of  friends  when  needed. 

"I  have  several  times  declined  nomination  for  public  life.  I 
have   said,   in   reports   on   several   municipalities   that  we   have 


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audited,  that  politics  and  law  together  handcuff,  shackle,  and 
gag  a  public  officer  and  then  we  throw  him  into  his  office  and 
tell  him  to  make  good.  It  has  always  seemed  to  me  that  I  could 
serve  my  fellow-men  better  by  working  unfettered,  for  the 
simplification  and  reconstruction  where  necessary  of  many  of  the 
features  of  our  political  structure  that  have  become  antiquated 
and  brought  to  misuse  by  our  politicians.  So  here  I  am  pegging 
away. 

"Thanks  to  a  kind  Providence  my  professional  practice  is 
growing.  If  it  continues  to  do  so  I  may  be  able  to  disprove 
before  I  die  the  celebrated  assertion  of  beloved  Mark  Twain, 
that  'nobody  can  afford  to  live  in  New  York.'  But  I  am  not 
particularly  exercised  at  present  over  that  proposition. 

"I  cannot  write  much  about  hobbies.  I  have  hobbies.  One 
of  them  is  music.  My  wife  is  a  musician  and  has  exercised  a 
good  deal  of  influence  on  the  position  of  music  in  education. 
But  my  boy,  Roger,  marvelous  child  that  he  is,  of  course, 
although  seven  years  old  is  unable  to  sing  a  note.  Heredity  and 
environment  are  mysteries  despite  the  revelations  of  science. 

"My  classmates  may  remember  that  I  used  to  pole  vault  at 
Yale.  As  an  indication  of  physical  health  I  am  happy  to  inform 
them  that  I  can  still  do  ten  feet.  I  went  into  a  gymnasium  the 
other  day  and  proved  it  to  the  astonishment  of  some  small  fry 
gymnasts  around  the  age  of  twenty  or  twenty-five  who  were 
trying  to  get  over  the  bar  at  a  height  of  nine  feet  or  so.  I 
weigh  five  pounds  more  than  I  did  when  I  graduated  in  1893 
and  my  vaulting  triceps  is  as  big  as  it  ever  was,  although  I 
found  it  a  little  stiff  and  sore  after  the  unwonted  test  to  which 
I  put  it  the  other  day. 

"I  suppose  the  Class  wants  to  know  every  man's  war  record. 
I  have  offered  my  services  to  the  government  in  every  branch 
of  the  army  and  navy  and  have  been  thankfully  declined  because 
of  defective  vision  and  having  passed  the  age  limit.  Therefore, 
I  am  doing  what  I  can  in  a  civilian  capacity,  selling  bonds,  speak- 
ing publicly  on  National  Defense,  and  contributing  free  profes- 
sional services  to  governmental  departments,  bureaus,  and  com- 
missions. None  of  such  work  is  much  in  the  public  eye  but  I 
hope  and  believe  that  it  all  counts. 

"I  have  always  been  glad  and  thankful  that  I  am  a  Yale  man 
and  I  hope  that  I  may  never  cause  anyone  connected  with  Yale 
to  wish  I  were  otherwise." 


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73 


Cartwright  is  independent  in  politics.  A  member  of  the 
Baptist  Church  and  a  Mason,  he  belongs  to  a  number  of  clubs, 
the  New  York  State  Society  of  Certified  Public  Accountants, 
and  the  American  Institute  of  Public  Accountants. 

He  was  married  July  15,  1908,  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  to 
Harriet  May,  daughter  of  Samuel  B.  Garton,  a  merchant,  and 
Martha  (Berry)  Garton.  Mrs.  Cartwright  is  a  graduate  of 
Des  Moines  College  and  of  Des  Moines  Musical  College  and 
before  her  marriage  was  the  head  of  the  school-music  depart- 
ment in  Bush  Temple  of  Music,  Chicago,  and  later,  head  of  the 
music  departments  in  several  New  York  schools.  They  have 
one  son,  Roger  Garton,  born  April  26,  191 1,  in  New  York  City. 


THOMAS    I.    CHATFIELD 


Thomas  Ives  Chatfield 

Judge  of  the  U.  S.  District  Court,  Federal  Building,  Brooklyn,  New  York 
Residence,  31   Linden  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

Chatfield  is  the  only  son  of  Thomas  Ives  and  Lucy  Benton 
(Goodrich)  Chatfield,  who  were  married  June  22,  1858.  The 
father,  born  September  16,   1818,  in  Great  Barrington,   Massa- 


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chusetts,  and  died  May  2,  1884,  in  Owego,  New  York,  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  in  the  latter  town.  He  was  in  the  whole- 
sale and  retail  grocery  business  and  held  many  town  offices,  being 
also  a  member  of  the  Assembly,  a  State  senator,  and  a  delegate 
to  the  convention  which  nominated  General  Grant  for  President. 
Mr.  Chatfield  was  descended  from  one  of  four  brothers  who 
came  from  England  to  Saybrook,  Connecticut,  in  1636,  and  from 
the  Dwight  and  Ives  families  in  Connecticut.  Lucy  (Goodrich) 
Chatfield  was  born  July  15,  1830,  in  Owego  and  died  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  on  November  3,  1903.  Her  ancestors  settled  in  Con- 
necticut early  in  the  seventeenth  century. 

Thomas  I.  Chatfield,  Jr.,  was  born  October  4,  1871,  in  Owego, 
New  York,  and  prepared  at  the  Owego  Free  Academy.  In 
college  he  received  a  philosophical  oration  appointment  Junior 
year  and  a  high  oration  in  Senior  year  and  was  elected  to  Phi 
Beta  Kappa.  He  played  on  Class  and  scrub  football  teams, 
rowed  in  the  single  scull  race  in  the  fall  regatta  in  1891,  and  in 
the  eight-oared  shell  Class  races  in  1892  and  1893,  and  was  a 
substitute  on  the  University  Crew  in  1892.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Class  Day  Committee  and  of  Zeta  Psi. 

Entering  Columbia  in  the  fall  following  graduation  he  com- 
pleted his  course  in  1896,  having  spent  several  months  in  the 
South  for  ill  health  in  1894-95.  The  month  after  he  received 
his  law  degree  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  and  began 
the  practice  of  law  with  Miller  &  Miller.  In  May,  1902,  he  left 
this  firm  and  entered  into  the  partnership  of  Decker,  Allen  & 
Chatfield,  but  on  January  1,  1903,  was  appointed  first  assistant 
U.  S.  attorney  for  the  Eastern  District  of  New  York.  Four 
years  later  he  was  advanced  to  be  judge  of  the  district  court  in 
that  district. 

He  was  married  June  7,  1899,  in  Owego,  to  Laura  Dwight, 
daughter  of  Warren  Leroy  Ayer,  M.D.  Long  Island  College 
Medical  School  1868,  and  Sarah  Adelia  (Dwight)  Ayer.  They 
have  three  children,  all  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York :  Katharine 
Ives,  born  January  29,  1901 ;  Helen  Ayer,  born  May  30,  1903, 
and  Thomas  Dwight,  born  September  21,  1910. 

Chatfield  writes :  "My  aim  seems  to  have  been  to  work  hard 
and  then  to  work  some  more,  trying  to  live  up  to  the  great  office 
which  I  hold,  to  follow  worthily  in  the  footsteps  of  the  great  men 
who  have  brought  honor  to  that  office  in  the  past  and  to  uphold 
the  United  States  of  America  in  all  things  with  personal  honor 
as  my  guide.     My  recreation  is  limited  to  crowding  into  a  vaca- 


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tion,  usually  spent  largely  in  fishing  in  the  wilds,  all  the  benefit 
I  can  gain  so  as  to  get  strength  for  the  next  year  of  close  applica- 
tion to  hard  work.  Details  do  not  add  to  the  statement  and  are 
not  interesting  to  others.  I  try  to  do  all  I  can  for  my  family  and 
fell  that  I  do  not  accomplish  much  that  I  would  like  to  do,  but 
what  is  there  in  life  beyond  doing  your  duty  as  God  gives  you  the 
opportunity  to  do?  Our  best  is  what  we  do  after  all  but  it  can 
always  be  made  better  and  we  always  fall  short  of  what  we  wish. 
Then  try  again  before  it  is  too  late." 


ALVAH    S.    CHISHOLM 


Alvah  Stone  Chisholm 

Assistant  to  the  president,  American   Steel  &  Wire   Company,  Western 
Reserve  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Residence,  12717  Lake  Shore  Boulevard,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Chisholm  is  a  son  of  William  and  Mary  Henrietta  (Stone) 
Chisholm,  who  were  married  September  22,  1864,  and  had  three 
other  children:  Henry  (died  May  26,  1869,  in  Chicago)  ;  Mary 
Ann  (married  Kenyon  V.  Painter,  '89  s.;  died  June  26,  1901, 
in  Cleveland),  and  Jean  (married  Francis  E.  Drake,  ex-'gS  S.). 


176  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

The  son  of  Henry  Chisholm,  who  was  born  in  Lochgelly,  Scot- 
land, and  came  to  Montreal,  Canada,  in  1842,  William  Chisholm 
was  born  in  the  latter  city  May  22,  1843.  He  lived  in  the  United 
States  after  1850,  studied  at  the  Polytechnic  Institute  of 
Philadelphia  (now  part  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania), 
from  1864  to  1879  was  vice-president  and  general  manager  of 
the  Union  Rolling  Mill  Company  of  Chicago,  and  from  1880  to 
1898,  president  of  the  Cleveland  Rolling  Mill  Company  of  Cleve- 
land, Ohio.  His  death  occurred  in  that  city  on  December  6, 
1905.  Mrs.  Chisholm  was  born  February  3,  1846,  in  Auburn, 
Massachusetts,  and  died  May  25,  191 5,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Yale 
relatives  are  William  A.  Osborn,  '93,  Wilson  K.  Chisholm,  '98, 
Henry  Chisholm,  '01,  Clifton  Chisholm,  <?.#•- 'oo  S.,  and  Douglas 
Chisholm,  '09. 

Alvah  S.  Chisholm  was  born  November  13,  1871,  in  Chicago, 
Illinois,  and  was  prepared  in  the  public  schools  of  Cleveland. 
He  received  dispute  appointments,  was  manager  of  the  Fresh- 
man Baseball  Team,  a  member  of  the  Sophomore  German  Com- 
mittee, floor  manager  of  the  Junior  Prom,  secretary  and  business 
manager  of  the  University  Glee  Club  in  Senior  year,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Renaissance  Club,  University  Club,  Eta  Phi,  Psi 
Upsilon,  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

On  graduation  he  became  assistant  to  the  president  of  the 
Cleveland  Rolling  Mill  Company  (now  the  American  Steel  & 
Wire  Company)  and  has  continued  in  this  position.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Citizens  Savings  &  Trust  Company,  the  Cleveland 
&  Buffalo  Transit  Company,  the  Pennsylvania  &  Lake  Erie  Dock 
Company,  the  Newburgh  &  South  Shore  Railway  Company, 
the  Kelley  Island  Lime  &  Transport  Company,  the  Standard 
Land  Company,  the  Standard  Sewing  Machine  Company,  the 
Maynard  H.  Murch  Company,  the  American  Multigraph  Com- 
pany, the  Cleveland  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  the  Union  Com- 
merce National  Bank. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  since  1913  has  served  as  a 
councilman  in  the  village  of  Bratenahl. 

His  interest  in  philanthropic  movements  is  actively  shown  in 
service  as  trustee  of  the  Welfare  Federation,  the  Babies  Dispen- 
sary and  Hospital,  and  as  fiscal  trustee  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  He 
is  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  Cathedral  Church. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Union,  Tavern,  Country,  Mayfield, 
Chagrin  Valley  Hunt,  and  Roadside  clubs,  and  of  the  Yale  Club 
of  New  York. 


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He  was  married  November  24,  1896,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  to 
Adele,  daughter  of  Warren  Holmes  and  Mary  Helen  (Wick) 
Corning.  They  have  had  five  children :  Adele,  born  September 
11,  1897;  Alvah  Stone,  Jr.,  born  January  6,  1899,  died  July  26, 
1900;  William,  2d,  born  December  29,  1901 ;  Helen  Corning, 
born  February  2,  1908,  and  Corning,  born  July  18,  1914. 


Charles  Walker  Clark 

Business  addresses,  San  Mateo,  California;    Jerome,  Arizona,  and  20 
Exchange  Place,  New  York  City 

Residence,  San  Mateo,  California 

Clark  is  a  son  of  William  Andrews  and  Katharine  Louise 
(Stauffer)  Clark,  who  were  married  March  17,  1869,  and  had  six 
other  children,  three  of  whom  are  now  living :  William  A.  Clark, 
Jr.,  wTho  studied  law  at  the 
University  of  Virginia ;  Mary 
(Mrs.  Charles  Potter  Kling), 
and  Katharine  (Mrs.  Lewis 
R.  Morris).  The  father 
(born  January  8,  1839,  in 
Connellsville,  Pennsylvania) 
is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry, 
his  grandparents  having 
located  in  Pennsylvania  about 
the  time  of  the  Revolutionary 
War.  He  was  a  student  at 
the  Columbia  School  of  Mines  4 

in  1869.  He  is  president  and 
principal  owner  of  numerous 
mining,  railroad,  and  banking 
companies  and  has  lived 
chiefly  in  Butte,  Montana, 
and  New  York  City.  In 
June,  1901,  he  married  Anna 
E.  LaChapelle  in  Paris, 
France.     Our  classmate's 

mother  (born  September  30,  1841,  in  Connellsville,  Pennsylvania, 
and  died  October  19,  1893,  in  New  York  City)  was  of  Dutch 
descent. 


CHARLES    W.    CLARK 


178  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Charles  W.  Clark  was  born  November  3,  1871,  in  Deer  Lodge, 
Montana,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Brooklyn  Poly- 
technic Institute.  He  received  a  first  dispute  Junior  and  a  collo- 
quy Senior  appointment,  and  was  a  member  of  the  University 
Club  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

Since  graduation  he  has  been  connected  with  his  father's  large 
mining  interests  in  the  West  and  is  either  a  partner  or  general 
manager  of  many  mining  and  railroad  companies,  the  principal 
one  being  the  United  Verde  Copper  Company.  He  is  a  director 
of  numerous  subsidiary  companies,  of  the  Hibernia  Savings  and 
Loan  Association  and  of  the  Morris  Plan  Bank,  of  San  Francisco. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pacific 
Union,  University,  and  Golf  and  Country  clubs  of  San  Francisco, 
Burlingame  Country  Club,  San  Mateo  Polo  Club,  California  Club 
of  Los  Angeles,  Lakeside  Golf  Club,  Silver  Bow  Club  of  Butte, 
Montana,  Alta  Club  of  Salt  Lake  City,  Montana  Club  of  Helena, 
Racquet  and  Tennis,  Lambs,  and  Yale  clubs  of  New  York, 
Travelers  Club  of  Paris,  and  Hurlingham  Club  of  London.  He 
is  president  of  the  Golden  Gate  Thoroughbred  Breeders  Associa- 
tion of  San  Francisco. 

He  was  married  June  30,  1896,  in  Butte,  Montana,  to  Katharine 
Quin  Roberts,  who  died  January  26,  1904. 

He  was  married  a  second  time,  August  4,  1904,  in  San 
Francisco,  to  Cecilia,  daughter  of  Richard  Tobin,  one  of  the 
pioneers  who  came  from  Ireland  to  California  around  the  Horn 
in  1847,  merchant  and  founder  of  the  Hibernia  Bank  of  San 
Francisco.  They  have  four  children:  Mary  Cecilia,  born 
December  20,  1905;  Virginia  Elizabeth,  born  March  17,  1907; 
Agnes,  born  May  15,  1908,  and  Paul  Francis,  born  May  7,  1915. 


John  Darling  Clarke 

Lawyer,  387  Main  Street,  Springfield,  Massachusetts 

Residence,  414  Central  Street,  Springfield,  Massachusetts 

Clarke  is  a  son  of  Thomas  Gates  and  Cressa  (Judson)  Clarke, 
who  were  married  in  September,  1854,  and  had  five  other 
children:  Rebecca  C.  (Clarke)  Witter  (died  in  1909)  ;  Belle  S. 
(Clarke)  Kingsley;  Josie  J.  (Clarke)  Hetrick  (died  in  1916)  ; 
Andrew  T.  J.  Clarke,  and  Allen  G.  Clarke  (died  in  1888). 
Thomas  G.  Clarke  (born  June  16,  1809,  in  Franklin,  Connecticut; 


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179 


died  March  19,  1901,  in  Canterbury,  Connecticut)  was  descended 
from  Thomas  Clarke  of  Plymouth  Colony,  Massachusetts.  His 
home  was  in  Canterbury  after  his  tenth  year;  he  attended  Brown 
University,    and   graduated   from   the   Theological   Institute   of 


JOHN   D.    CLARKE 


Connecticut  (now  Hartford  Theological  Seminary)  in  1840. 
He  was  a  farmer,  was  a  state  representative  and  state  senator, 
chairman  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen,  and  for  over  fifty  years  a 
deacon  in  the  church.  Our  classmate's  mother  died  in  October, 
1866,  in  Canterbury,  and  Mr.  Clarke  married  Sarah  H.  Johnson 
in  April,  1870. 

John  D.  Clarke  was  born  June  29,  1865,  in  Canterbury,  and 
was  prepared  for  college  at  Dean  Academy,  Franklin,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 

The  first  three  years  out  of  college  he  studied  law  in  the  office 
of  Albert  E.  Addis,  of  Northampton,  was  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mon Council  for  two  years  and  in  January,  1896,  was  elected 
president.  The  following  January  he  was  admitted  to  the  Hamp- 
shire County  Bar  and  after  practicing  one  year  in  Northampton, 
opened  an  office  in  Springfield,  where  he  has  since  continued. 


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He  was  married  March  7,  1900,  in  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  to 
Clara  Viola,  daughter  of  George  M.  and  Sarah  E.  (Andrews) 
Brown.  They  have  five  children,  all  born  in  Springfield  :  Cressa 
Elizabeth,  born  September  28,  1901 ;  Ruth  Darling,  born  July 
13,  1903;  Alta  Enola,  born  August  13,  1905;  John  Darling,  Jr., 
born  August  28,  1906,  and  Thelma  Viola,  born  April  2,  1909. 

A  nephew,  Colonel  Harold  S.  Hetrick,  N.  A.,  117th  Engineers, 
was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1901. 


James  Barclay  Cooke 

Secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Passaic  Structural  Steel  Company, 
Paterson,  New  Jersey 

Residence,  270  Passaic  Avenue,  Paterson,  New  Jersey 

Cooke  is  a  son  of  James  and  Mimie  B.  (Evans)  Cooke,  who 
were  married  May  13,  1868,  and  had  two  other  children:   Elinor 

(married  Lucius  F.  Robin- 
son, Yale  '85)  and  Walter 
Evans  Cooke,  Yale  '95. 
James  Cooke  ( (born  August 
12,  1837,  in  Matteawan,  New 
York,  and  died  in  August, 
1883,  in  Saranac,  New  York), 
was  the  son  of  Watts  and 
Lavinia  Cooke,  who  came  to 
this  country  from  Ireland  in 
1834.  He  was  a  master  me- 
chanic with  the  Delaware, 
Lackawanna  &  Western  Rail- 
road and  later  held  various 
positions  with  the  Cooke 
Locomotive  &  Machine  Com- 
pany, serving  as  president  for 
several  years.  His  wife 
(born  July  10,  1846,  in  New 
York  City ;  died  in  September, 
1878,  in  Paterson,  New  Jer- 
sey) was  the  daughter  of 
William  L.  and  Elinor  Evans,  who  were  both  born  in  Wales  and 
came  to  the  United  States  in  1843. 


J.   BARCLAY   COOKE 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


James  B.  Cooke  was  born  December  13,  1870,  in  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire.  He  received  colloquy  appointments  and 
was  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  School  Club,  the  University  Club, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

He  held  various  positions  in  the  Passaic  Rolling  Mill  Com- 
pany from  1893  to  1902,  and  since  that  time  has  been  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Passaic  Steel  Company  and  the  Passaic 
Structural  Steel  Company,  successors  of  the  former  company. 
He  is  also  president  of  the  Berwyn  Silk  Company. 

Republican  in  politics.  He  is  treasurer  and  a  director  of  the 
Paterson  Rescue  Mission  and  a  trustee  of  the  Church  of  the 
Redeemer  (Presbyterian).  His  clubs  are  the  Graduates  of  New 
Haven  and  the  Hamilton  of  Paterson. 

He  has  not  married. 

Lucius  F.  Robinson,  Jr.,  Yale  '18,  and  Barclay  Robinson, 
Yale  '19,  are  nephews. 


John  Smith  Cravens 

Business  address,  1021  Trust  and  Savings  Building,  Los  Angeles, 

California 

Residence,  1101  Orange  Grove  Avenue,  Pasadena,  California 

Temporary  address,  1785  Massachusetts  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Cravens'  parents  were  married  April  25,  1861,  and  had  three 
other  children:  James  Harrison  Cravens,  B.A.  Williams  1887; 
Lanier  Cravens  (killed  October  24,  19 17,  while  a  member  of  the 
Canadian  Bridge  and  Railway  Battalion  serving  under  General 
Sir  Douglas  Haig  in  Flanders),  and  Frances  Cravens.  The 
father,  John  Kenney  Cravens,  was  born  in  August,  1838,  in 
Richmond,  Indiana,  and  died  November  2,  1892,  in  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  where  he  spent  the  latter  half  of  his  life.  He  was  a 
lawyer  by  profession.  The  mother,  Fanny  Catlett  (Frame) 
Cravens,  was  born  March  1,  1839,  near  Catlettsburg,  Boyd 
County,  Kentucky.  Her  ancestors  were  French-Huguenots  who 
came  from  near  Albi,  France,  about  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth 
century.  Mr.  Cravens  was  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  being 
descended  from  a  branch  of  the  family  which  came  to  this 
country  from  near  Coventry,  England. 


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Cravens  was  born  March  5,  1871,  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  Kansas  City  High  School.  He  received 
a  dissertation  Junior  and  a  second  dispute  Senior  appointment; 
rowed  on  the  Class  Crew,  was  a  member  of  the  College  Choir, 


JOHN    S.   CRAVENS 


president  of  the  University  Glee  Club,  and  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

From  1893  to  1896  he  worked  for  Liggett  &  Myers,  tobacco 
manufacturers,  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  In  1899  ne  moved  to 
Pasadena,  California,  and  was  elected  president  of  the  Edison 
Electric  Company  of  Los  Angeles.  Two  years  later  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  Southwestern  National  Bank  of  Los 
Angeles  which  was  absorbed  in  1906  by  the  First  National  Bank. 
He  is  vice-president  of  this  organization,  president  of  the 
American  Conduit  Company  and  a  director  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  Dominguez  Land  Corporation,  and  Chino 
Land  &  Water  Company. 

He  is  a  Republican,  but  independent  in  local  politics. 

He  is  president  of  Barlow  Sanatorium,  Los  Angeles  (for 
tuberculosis),  and  chairman  of  the  Pasadena  Welfare  Bureau 
(Associated  Relief  Charities).     An  Episcopalian,  he  is  chairman 


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of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Diocese  of  Los  Angeles  for  the 
Church  Pension  Fund. 

In  1917  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  Southwest  Division  of  the  Military  Training  Camps  Associa- 
tion, and  had  charge  of  the  enrollment  of  all  candidates  in  that 
division  for  the  Officers'  Training  Camps  at  the  Presidio. 
Through  the  various  enrolling  bureaus  under  his  care  about 
2400  applications  for  admission  were  received  and  about  one- 
fourth  gained  admittance  to  the  camps.  Last  fall  he  went  to 
Washington  to  serve  as  a  member  of  the  Section  on  Co-operation 
with  States  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense. 

His  clubs  are  the  Yale  and  Bankers  of  New  York,  Graduates 
of  New  Haven,  Englewood  Country  Club,  California  Club,  Los 
Angeles,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Bolsa  Chico  Gun  Club, 
Midwick  Country  Club,  Pasadena,  and  the  Bohemian  Club,  San 
Francisco. 

He  was  married  December  28,  1893,  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  to 
Mildred  Mary,  daughter  of  George  Smith  Myers,  a  tobacco  manu- 
facturer, and  Mary  Emily  (Buchanan)  Myers.  They  have  no 
children. 

Cravens  writes :  "My  travels  have  been  considerable  on  the 
continent  of  Europe,  largely  motoring.  Also  a  trip  up  the  Nile 
in  a  dahabieh.  My  hobbies  are  hunting  and  amateur  sports.  My 
aim  is  to  be  helpful.  Have  held  no  public  office  and  seek  none. 
At  present  am  identified  with  the  Council  of  National  Defense 
at  Washington  and  have  made  that  city  my  home  and  will  remain 
there  as  long  as  I  can  render  service  to  the  Government.  My 
principal  thoughts  are  of  the  civil  and  politico-social  conditions 
of  our  country.     It  is  my  most  interesting  subject  of  study." 


George  Mason  Creevey 

Physician,  40  East  Sixty-third  Street,  New  York  City 

Creevey  is  the  only  living  son  of  Henry  and  Polly  Maria 
(Mason)  Creevey,  who  were  married  November  20,  1869,  and 
had  three  other  children:  Frederick  Loring  (died  May  18,  1871, 
in  New  York  City)  ;  Edmund  (died  January  3,  1876,  in  New 
York  City),  and  Margaret  Maria  (Creevey)  Griffin.  Henry 
Creevey,  son  of  Rev.  George  Chapman  Creevey  and  Margaret 
(Sinclair)  Creevey,  was  born  in  Cross  Hill,  County  Antrim,  Ire- 


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land,  September  17,  1837,  and  died  in  New  York  City,  November 
29,  1880.  Coming  to  the  United  States  in  1849  ne  spent  most 
of  his  life  in  Connecticut  and  in  New  York  City,  where  he  was 
the  owner  of  a  dry-goods  business  in  later  life.      His  brother, 


GEORGE    M.    CREEVEY 


John  K.  Creevey,  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1866,  and  his  son, 
William  S.  Creevey,  in  1902.  Mrs.  Creevey  was  born  June  15, 
1850,  in  Hope,  Hamilton  County,  New  York.  Her  father's 
family  was  of  English  descent  and  first  settled  in  this  country 
about  1645  >  on  her  mother's  side  she  is  descended  from  French 
and  Dutch  families  in  the  seventeenth  century. 

George  M.  Creevey  was  born  July  4,  1872,  in  Hope,  New  York, 
and  was  prepared  at  Adelphi  Academy,  Brooklyn.  He  received 
an  oration  Junior  appointment,  a  high  oration  Senior  appoint- 
ment, and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  is  a  member  of 
Zeta  Psi  and  the  Elihu  Club. 

Graduating  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
Columbia,  in  1896,  he  was  licensed  to  practice  in  New  York  and 
appointed  to  the  house  staff  of  Roosevelt  Hospital  for  four  years' 
service.  In  May,  1899,  he  became  assistant  to  Dr.  McBurney  in 
New  York  City,  where  he  has  since  practiced.     In  January,  1901, 


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he  was  appointed  attending  surgeon  at  the  Cornell  University 
Medical  School  Dispensary  but  resigned  the  following  year.  He 
practiced  general  surgery  and  more  anaesthesia  until  1907,  since 
which  time  he  has  practiced  anaesthesia  exclusively,  at  various 
times  having  appointments  as  anaesthetist  to  Bellevue  Hospital, 
New  York  Hospital,  and  Roosevelt  Hospital.  He  is  now  "all 
over  the  lot  as  special  anaesthetist"  and  adds,  "in  my  own 
specialty  have  invented  considerable  apparatus  and  several  new 
methods  which  did  not  seem  wonderful  enough  to  publish 
although  they  have  been  widely  copied  and  used." 

He  is  a  Republican.  He  belongs  to  several  medical  societies, 
and  to  the  Century  and  University  clubs. 

He  was  married  September  5,  1901,  in  New  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, to  Lucy  Morris,  daughter  of  William  W.  Ellsworth, 
formerly  president  of  the  Century  Publishing  Company,  and 
Helen  Yale  (Smith)  Ellsworth.  Mrs.  Creevey's  uncle,  Frederick 
W.  Davis,  graduated  at  Yale  in  1877;  her  cousin,  Carl  W.  Davis, 
in  1902;  her  brother,  Bradford  Ellsworth,  in  1903,  and  her 
brother-in-law,  Frederick  S.  Goucher,  in  191 1. 

There  are  three  children:  Carlotta,  born  September  13,  1902, 
in  New  Hartford,  Connecticut,  attending  Brearley  School; 
Kennedy,  born  July  13,  1905,  in  New  York  City,  attending  Kir- 
mayer  School,  and  Eileen,  born  July  20,  1910,  in  New  York 
City,  attending  Brearley  School. 

In  reply  to  the  request  for  a  personal  letter  Creevey  writes: 
"As  I  am  a  monogam  I  take  it  this  question  does  not  apply  to 
me.  The  preceding  questions,  though  discreet,  have  searched 
out  all  there  is  to  know,  so  help  me  God." 


Beecher  Maynard  Crouse 

Treasurer,  Avalon  Knitwear  Company,  Utica,  New  York 
Residence,  369  Genesee  Street,  Utica,  New  York 

Grouse's  parents  were  married  June  30,  1869,  and  had  one 
other  child,  a  daughter,  Mary  Louise  Crouse.  The  father,  John 
M.  Crouse,  was  born  December  12,  1847,  m  Canastota,  New  York, 
and  died  July  10,  1906,  in  England.  His  ancestors,  who  came 
from  Bavaria,  settled  in  the  Mohawk  Valley.  He  spent  most  of 
his  life  in  Utica,  where  he  was  president  of  the  Utica  Steam  & 


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Mohawk  Valley  Cotton  Mills  Company.  The  mother,  Mary  L. 
Maynard,  who  was  of  English  and  Scotch  descent,  was  born 
March  22,  1847,  m  Utica,  and  died  in  that  city  June  30,  1893. 

Beecher  M.  Crouse  was  born  August  22,  1870,  in  Utica,  New 
York,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Utica  Free  Academy 


BEECHER    M.    CROUSE 


and  at  the  Lawrenceville  School.  He  played  on  the  Class  Foot- 
ball and  Baseball  teams,  was  an  editor  of  the  Courant,  and  a 
member  of  the  Junior  Prom  Committee,  the  Yale  Union, 
Lawrenceville  Club,  University  Club,  He  Boule,  Psi  Upsilon, 
and  Scroll  and  Key. 

He  was  with  the  firm  of  John  M.  Crouse  &  Son,  wholesale 
grocers,  Utica,  from  1893  to  1898,  when  he  became  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Avalon  Knitwear  Company.  He  is  a  director 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Utica  and  is  an  officer  or  director 
in  eighteen  business  concerns  of  various  kinds. 

From  1910  to  1912  he  served  as  a  park  commissioner.  He 
belongs  to  the  Episcopal  Church  and  is  a  director  in  several  war 
relief  activities.  He  has  served  as  president  of  the  Yale  Club  of 
Utica  and  is  now  vice-president  of  the  Fort  Schuyler  Club.     He 


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187 


also  has  a  membership  in  the  Sadaquada  Golf  Club,  Tennis  Club, 
Yahnundasis  Golf  Club,  all  of  Utica,  the  University  Club  of  New 
York,  and  the  Adirondack  League  Club. 

He  was  married  September  5,  1894,  in  Guilford,  Connecticut, 
to  Louise  Shultas,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Caroline  (Shultas) 
Knous.  They  have  had  two  daughters :  Caroline  Shultas,  born 
February  26,  1896,  and  died  January  4,  19 13,  and  Catharine 
Maynard,  born  November  26,  1902. 

Crouse  writes :  "Several  of  the  companies  I  am  intimately 
interested  in  are  working  for  the  Government  and  we  are  doing 
all  we  can,  in  our  small  way,  to  help  in  this  great  crisis.  I  have 
several  hundred  acres  in  the  Adirondacks  where  I  go  for  my 
recreation  whenever  possible.  I  believe  in  work,  rest,  and 
recreation.  I  go  all  the  three  hard  and  make  my  men  do  the 
same." 


Elliot  S.  Curtis,  son 
Elliot  M.  Curtis,  was  born  in 
Tidioute,  Warren  County, 
Pennsylvania,  on  June  18, 
1870.  He  received  his  pre- 
paratory training  with  Mr. 
S.  T.  Marks  in  Tidioute  and 
in  college  he  had  first  colloquy 
rank. 

After  graduation  he  en- 
gaged in  business  in  his  home 
town. 

On  July  1,  1894,  he  was 
killed  by  a  stroke  of  light- 
ning. He  was  on  a  lake  in  an 
open  boat  when  a  thunder- 
storm came  up  and,  seeking 
shelter  under  a  large  tree 
ashore,  he  was  killed  by  the 
same  current  which  struck  the 
tree. 

He  had  not  married. 


*Elliot  Stone  Curtis 

Died  July  1,  1894 
Of 


ELLIOT    S.    CURTIS 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Howard  Dorrance  Day 

Instructor  in  science,  Classical  High  School,  Providence,  Rhode  Island 
Residence,  216  Medway  Street,  Providence,  Rhode  Island 

Day  is  one  of  nine  children.  Two  brothers  and  two  sisters 
attended  Brown  University;  Robert  Harvey  Day,  B.A.  Brown 
1896,  M.A.  1897  (died  March  2,  1900),  Horace  Talbot  Day, 
^'-1901,  Anne  Marjorie  Day,  B.A.  Vassar  1898,  M.A.  Brown 

1917,  and  Emily  Brainard 
(Day)  Macomber,  student  at 
Pembroke  College,  Brown 
University,  1900- 1901.  The 
father,  James  Williams  Day, 
was  born  March  11,  1839,  m 
Ellicottville,  New  York,  the 
son  of  Samuel  Dorrance  and 
Emily  (Fuller)  Day,  who  was 
of  the  seventh  generation 
from  Edward  Fuller,  one  of 
the  passengers  on  the  May- 
flower. From  1856  until  his 
death  on  August  23,  19 14,  in 
Providence,  Rhode  Island, 
Mr.  Day  was  in  business  in 
that  city.  He  was  married 
June  7,  1865,  to  Anne  Read 
Allen,  who  was  born  April  7, 
1842,  in  Seekonk,  Massachu- 
setts. 

Howard  D.  Day  was  born 
January  8,  1871,  in  Providence,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Classical 
High  School.  He  spent  Freshman  year  at  Brown  and  after 
entering  Yale  took  a  second  DeForest  Mathematical  Prize, 
received  a  first  colloquy  Junior  appointment  and  a  second  dispute 
Senior  appointment,  and  was  a  member  of  Zeta  Psi. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  Brown  as  an  instructor  in 
English  (1893-94)  and  a  student  in  physical  science  and  mathe- 
matics (1893-96).  In  1895  he  became  instructor  in  science  in 
the  English  High  School  at  Providence,  where  he  continued 
until  September,  19 17,  when  he  transferred  to  the  Classical  High 
School.     He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Brown  in  1899. 


HOWARD   D.    DAY 


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189 


He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  belongs  to  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  and  is  on  the  educational  committee  of  St. 
Andrew's  Industrial  School  of  Barrington,  Rhode  Island. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Providence,  the 
Wannamoisett  Country  Club,  Rumford,  the  Barnard  Club  of 
Rhode  Island  and  the  Yale  Association  of  Rhode  Island,  serving 
as  chairman  of  the  committee  on  relations  with  Yale. 

He  has  not  married. 


ROBERT    K.    DICKERMAN 


^Robert  Kerr  Dickerman 

Died  September  4,  1907 

Dickerman  was  a  son  of  Dr.  Lemuel  K.  Dickerman  and  Maria 
(Knapp)  Dickerman.  Josiah  P.  Dickerman,  B.A.  Amherst  1886, 
Yale  School  of  Religion  ex-iSgo,  is  a  brother. 

Robert  K.  Dickerman  was  born  June  29,  1870,  in  Foxboro, 
Norfolk  County,  Massachusetts,  and  was  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Boston  Latin  School  and  at  Phillips-Andover. 

Following  graduation  he  attended  the  Harvard  Law  School 
from  1893  to  1895  and  in  September,  1896,  was  admitted  to  the 
Massachusetts    Bar.     He   handled    corporation   and   bankruptcy 


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cases  and  for  the  last  six  years  was  associated  with  Mr.  Charles 
G.  Bartlett  in  Boston.  He  was  also  interested  in  the  development 
of  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Salem,  having  joined  Mr.  Henry  M. 
Whitney  in  this  project.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Boston  Bar 
Association  and  of  the  Yale  and  University  clubs. 

In  1907  ill  health  forced  him  to  give  up  his  work  and  he  died 
at  the  Fletcher  Sanitarium  in  Salem  on  September  4. 

He  was  married  August  27,  1904,  to  Lorita,  daughter  of  Louis 
Preston  Hollander,  a  merchant  of  Boston.  They  had  one  child, 
a  daughter,  Emma,  born  October  4,  1907. 


-,;'§t 


* Jonathan  Boynton  Dill 

Died  April  22,  1900 

1  Jonathan    B.    Dill,    son    of 

'  Rev.  William  H.  Dill,  Penn- 

^p*  sylvania    College     i860,    and 

Edith  (Boynton)  Dill,  was 
born  in  Clearfield,  Pennsyl- 
vania, January  30,  1871.  He 
was  prepared  at  Media  Acadj 
emy  and  in  college  was  a 
member  of  the  University 
Club  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

The  three  years   following 
graduation  he  spent  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  then  went  to 
Hastings,     Pennsylvania, 
where,    in    1897,    he    became 
manager  of  the  Alport  Coal 
Company,  and  acquired  an  in- 
terest in  the  Byrnes  Run  Sup- 
ply   Company,    of    Spangler, 
Pennsylvania.     He    won    the 
esteem   of   all   classes   in  the 
community,  and  the  workers  in  the  mines  held  him  in  the  highest 
regard.     He  was  elected  Chief  Burgess  of  Hastings  in  February, 
1900. 

He  died  at  his  home,  on  April  22,  1900,  of  acute  spinal  menin- 
gitis, after  an  illness  of  less  than  twenty-four  hours. 
He  was  unmarried. 


JONATHAN    B.    DILL 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


191 


Frank  Edward  Donnelly 

Lawyer,  905  Mears  Building,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania 
Residence,  734  Clay  Avenue,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania 

Donnelly  is  a  son  of  Thomas  H.  and  Bridget  (Farrell) 
Donnelly,  who  were  married  May  17,  1862,  and  had  five  other 
children,  three  daughters  and  two  sons.  One  of  the  sons, 
Richard  Julian  Donnelly,  was   graduated   from   Sheff  in   1899. 


FRANK   E.    DONNELLY 


The  father,  born  in  1837  in  New  York  City,  lived  also  in  Friends- 
ville,  Pennsylvania,  and  Binghamton,  New  York,  but  died  in  the 
city  of  his  birth  February  18,  1901.  He  started  life  as  a  school 
teacher,  was  then  a  farmer,  and  about  1872  became  a  grocer  and 
commission  merchant  in  Binghamton.  His  grandfather  came  to 
New  York  from  County  Clare,  Ireland,  in  1804.  Mrs.  Donnelly 
(born  June  15,  1836,  in  County  Longford,  Ireland)  was  the 
daughter  of  Bernard  Farrell,  who  came  to  America  in  1842,  and 
settled  at  Smithville,  New  York.  She  died  November  23,  1904, 
in  Oxford,  New  York. 


192  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Frank  E.  Donnelly  was  born  September  23,  1869,  near  Mon- 
trose, Pennsylvania.  He  was  valedictorian  of  the  Class  of  1888, 
Oxford  Academy,  and  at  Yale  received  a  dissertation  appoint- 
ment. He  was  editor  of  the  Class  Book  and  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon.  In  the  Law  School  he  was  an  editor  of  the 
Yale  Law  Journal  and  the  Yale  Shingle,  a  Townsend  Prize 
speaker,  and  a  member  of  Corbey  Court. 

He  first  gained  admission  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  December, 
1895,  having  been  graduated  in  June  with  the  degree  of  LL.B., 
and  in  the  following  June  was  admitted  to  the  Pennsylvania 
Bar.  He  practiced  in  Wilkes  Barre  from  1896  to  1900  when  he 
moved  to  Scranton,  where  his  office  has  since  been  located.  For 
several  years  he  and  Rice,  '93,  had  offices  together,  and,  although 
they  planned  to  become  partners,  the  arrangement  was  never 
completed.  He  was  elected  third  vice-president  of  the  Scranton 
Board  of  Trade  in  1917  and  1918. 

He  has  been  active  in  alumni  matters  and  served  as  vice- 
president  (1906)  and  president  (1907,  1916-17)  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  Scranton.  He  has  been  president  of  the 
Class  of  1895,  Yale  School  of  Law,  since  1905. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  A  member  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church;  he  belongs  to  the  Country  Club  of  Scranton 
and  the  Yale  Club  of  New  York. 

He  was  married  November  27,  1901,  in  Wilkes  Barre,  Penn- 
sylvania, to  Jean,  daughter  of  Conrad  and  Agnes  (Weir)  Lee. 
They  have  a  son  and  a  daughter,  both  born  in  Scranton :  Frank 
Lee,  born  January  14,  1905,  and  Jean  Lee,  born  February  4,  1912. 


*Francis  Oswald  Dorsey 

Died  June  17,  1915 

Francis  O.  Dorsey,  son  of  Robert  Stockton  Dorsey,  a  manu- 
facturer, and  Katharine  (Layman)  Dorsey,  was  born  on  Novem- 
ber 12,  1869,  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  was  prepared  at  the 
Shortridge  High  School.  In  college  he  made  a  colloquy  stand 
and  served  on  the  Cap  and  Gown  Committee.  From  1893  to 
1896  he  studied  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
Columbia  University,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  the 
latter  year,  being  also  awarded  a  prize  of  two  hundred  dollars 
for  excellence  in  the  work  of  his  entire  course.     Before  return- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


i93 


ing  in  1899  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  had  since  been  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  his  profession,  he  served  for  three  months  on  the 
house  staff  of  the  Sloane  Maternity  Hospital  and  for  two  years 
on  that  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital.  He  associated  himself  with 
Dr.  Henry  Jameson  in  Indian- 
apolis and  in  October,  1899, 
was  appointed  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  the  principles  and 
practice  of  medicine  in  the 
Indiana  Medical  College  (the 
medical  department  of  Purdue 
University),  and  the  follow- 
ing year  became  assistant 
demonstrator  in  pathology  in 
the  same  college,  a  position  he 
retained  until  1907,  when  he 
became  associate  professor  of 
medicine.  The  following 
year  he  accepted  a  similar 
appointment  on  the  staff  of 
the  Indiana  University  School 
of  Medicine.  He  was  profes- 
sor of  materia  medica  and 
therapeutics  in  the  Indiana 
Dental  College  for  four  years ; 
was    consulting    physician    at 

the  Indianapolis  Dispensary  from  1902  until  his  death,  and  was 
assistant  attending  physician  at  the  same  institution  from  1904  to 
1906,  and  attending  physician  from  1906  until  his  death.  From 
191 1  he  was  clinician  at  the  Bobbs  Free  Dispensary. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Indianapolis  and  Indiana  State 
Medical  societies  and  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  and 
was  president  of  the  Mount  Jackson  Sanitarium  Association,  vice- 
president  of  the  Tucker  &  Dorsey  Manufacturing  Company,  and 
a  director  of  the  Phoenix  Castor  Company.  He  served  as  the 
physical  examiner  of  the  Brooks  School  in  Indianapolis. 

His  death  occurred,  from  peritonitis,  in  Indianapolis  on  June 
17,  191 5,  and  the  burial  was  in  Crown  Hill  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  on  October  15,  1902,  in  Indianapolis,  to  Edith 
Maria,  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Marintha  (Robe)  Smith. 
There  were  no  children. 


FRANCIS    0.    DORSEY 


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^Richard  Edward  Dunham 

Died  March  21,  1896 


m 


RICHARD   E.    DUNHAM 


Richard  E.  Dunham,  son  of 
James  Dunham,  was  born  in 
Warren,  Pennsylvania,  on 
January  29,  1865.  He  was 
fitted  for  college  at  the  War- 
ren High  School. 

While  in  college  he  suffered 
a  serious  injury  to  one  wrist, 
and  by  over-exercise  increased 
the  difficulty.  He  attempted 
after  graduation  to  teach  in 
New  York  City  and  Mil  ford, 
Connecticut,  but  was  finally 
obliged  to  abandon  all  work 
and  undergo  treatment.  He 
was  for  some  months  in  the 
New  Haven  Hospital,  and 
again  in  a  hospital  in  Cleve- 
land, Ohio.  He  died  of  blood 
poisoning  at  his  home  in  War- 
ren on  March  21,  1896. 

He  had  not  married. 


Henry  Rutherford  Dwight 

President  and  treasurer,  Goodale,  Perry  &  Dwight,  Inc.,  real  estate,  137 
West  Twenty-third  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  891  Park  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Dwight's  parents,  Frederick  Augustus  and  Antoinette  Ray- 
mond (McMullen)  Dwight,  were  married  November  1,  1866,  and 
had  seven  other  children :  Frederick  Dwight,  Yale  '94 ;  Grace 
(Mrs.  Henry  Elmer  Gibb)  ;  Amos  Trowbridge  Dwight,  Yale 
'ooS.;  Antoinette;  Thornton  (died  April  3,  1888);  Clarissa 
(died  in  1876),  and  Isabel  (died  in  1869).  Mr.  Dwight,  a 
descendant  of  Captain  Timothy  Dwight,  who  came  to  America 
from  Dedham,  England,  in  1648,  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


J95 


Dwight  &  Piatt,  shipping  merchants,  until  1883,  when  he  retired 
from  active  business.  Pie  was  born  February  18,  1842,  in  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  and  died  September  30,  1916,  in  Seabright, 
New  Jersey.      A  sister  married   George  Theodore   Bliss,   B.A. 


v  ;.,'.,- 


HENRY   R.   DWIGHT 


1873,  and  Stanley  Dwight,  B.A.  1876,  is  a  cousin.  Mrs.  Dwight 
was  born  November  4,  1845,  m  Albany,  New  York.  Her 
ancestors  came  from  Holland  about  1650. 

Henry  R.  Dwight  was  born  September  26,  1871,  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic 
Institute  and  at  the  Brooklyn  Latin  School.  In  college  he  joined 
Zeta  Psi. 

Dwight  has  been  in  business  in  New  York  City  since  gradua- 
tion and  since  1900  especially  real  estate  has  been  his  field.  From 
1893  to  1897  he  was  with  Dominick  &  Dominick,  bankers ;  1897, 
assistant  secretary,  Merchants'  Safe  Deposit  Company;  1898, 
treasurer  of  the  Wool  Exchange;  1899-1900,  with  the  American 
Thread  Company.  In  the  real  estate  business  he  has  been 
associated  with  E.  S.  Willard  &  Company  (1900-06)  and  with 
Goodale,  Perry  &  Dwight  (president  and  treasurer).     He  is  also 


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treasurer  of  the  320  West  Eighty-third  Street  Company  and  of 
LaTula  Mining  Company. 

He  is  an  Independent  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Madison  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church.  He  was  on  guard  duty 
at  the  Croton  Aqueduct  during  August,  1917,  being  a  member 
of  the  9th  Coast  Artillery  Company,  New  York  Guard. 

His  clubs  are  the  University,  Yale  and  Hardware  of  New  York, 
Rumson  of  New  Jersey,  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and  the 
St.  Nicholas  Society. 

He  is  not  married. 


WINTHROP   E.   DWIGHT 


Winthrop  Edwards  Dwight 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Dwight  &  Scoville,  lawyers,  62  Cedar  Street, 

New  York  City 

Residence,  22  East  Forty-seventh  Street,  New  York  City 

Dwight  is  the  only  son  of  Timothy  and  Jane  Wakeman 
(Skinner)  Dwight,  who  were  married  December  31,  1866,  and 
had  one  other  child,  a  daughter,  Helen  Rood  Dwight  (died  Octo- 
ber 16,  1909).  Timothy  Dwight  (born  November  16,  1828,  in 
Norwich,  Connecticut;    died  May  26,  1916,  in  New  Haven),  a 


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descendant  of  John  Dwight  of  England,  who  settled  in  Dedham, 
Massachusetts,  in  1634,  was  the  grandson  of  Timothy  Dwight, 
B.A.  1769,  president  of  Yale  College  from  1795  to  181 7.  He 
also  traced  his  ancestry  in  a  direct  line  from  Rev.  Jonathan 
Edwards,  B.A.  1720,  third  president  of  Princeton.  Graduating 
from  Yale  in  1849,  our  classmate's  father  then  studied  Greek  and 
theology  and  in  1858  became  professor  of  sacred  literature  at 
Yale.  He  continued  in  this  position  until  1886  when  he  was 
elected  president  of  Yale  College,  which  office  he  resigned  in 
1899.  Mrs.  Dwight  (born  April  2,  1832,  in  New  York  City)  is 
the  daughter  of  Roger  Sherman  Skinner,  B.A.  1 81 3,  and  Mary 
Lockwood  (DeForest)  Skinner.  She  is  descended  from  Isaac 
DeForest  of  Picardy,  France,  who  settled  in  Manhattan  in  1637. 

Winthrop  E.  Dwight  was  born  December  23,  1872,  in  New 
Haven,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  private  tutors.  He  was 
Class  Secretary,  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine,  and  a 
member  of  the  Junior  Prom  Committee,  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Chi 
Delta  Theta,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

He  remained  at  Yale  three  years  for  graduate  study,  being 
enrolled  in  the  Graduate  and  Law  Schools,  in  1895  and  1896 
receiving  the  degrees  of  Ph.D.  and  LL.B.  Although  admitted 
to  the  Connecticut  Bar  in  1896  he  did  not  practice  until  1899 
when  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar,  having  been  a 
student  in  Balliol  College,  Oxford,  and  in  Paris  for  two  years. 
He  was  with  Simpson,  Thacher  &  Barnum  from  1899  to  1901, 
when  he  opened  an  office  for  general  practice.  In  May,  191 1,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  Herbert  Scoville,  Yale  1901,  his 
present  associate. 

He  was  married  October  30,  191 7,  in  New  Haven,  to  Mary 
(Ketcham)  Talmage,  widow  of  Thomas  Hunt  Talmage,  and 
daughter  of  William  Piatt  and  Lydia  C.  Ketcham.  Mrs.  Dwight 
has  two  children. 


*William  Walton  Eccles 

Died  August  16,  1914 

William  W.  Eccles,  son  of  Richard  and  Mary  (Walton) 
Eccles,  was  born  February  7,  187 1,  in  Auburn,  New  York.  He 
was  prepared  in  his  native  town  and  received  a  dispute  appoint- 
ment in  Junior  year  and  a  colloquy  Senior  year. 


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After  graduation  he  returned  to  Auburn  and  entered  the 
Richard  Eccles  Company,  manufacturers  of  carriage  hardware, 

in  the  fall  of  1893.  In  19 12 
he  was  made  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  company  and 
continued  in  these  offices  until 
his  death.  He  was  also  a 
trustee  of  the  Cayuga  County 
Savings  Bank  during  this 
period. 

He  died  from  cancer  on 
August  16,  1914,  at  his  sum- 
mer home  on  Owasco  Lake. 

He  was  married  October 
18,  1899,  to  Margaret  Allan, 
daughter  of  William  Ander- 
son of  Auburn.  They  had 
three  children :  Marion  Allan, 
born  December  9,  1900; 
Robert  Anderson,  born  June 
6,  1902,  and  Arthur  Walton, 
William  w.  eccles  born  December  6,  1904. 


Charles  Brown  Eddy 

Associate  director,  Division  of  Finance,  U.   S.  Railroad  Administration, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Simpson,  Thacher  &  Bartlett,  62  Cedar  Street, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  765  West  Eighth  Street,  Plainfield,  New  Jersey- 
Eddy  is  the  son  of  James  H.  and  Maria  N.  (Brown)  Eddy, 
who  were  married  September  5,  1864,  and  had  one  other  child, 
a  daughter,  Bessie  M.  Eddy.  Mr.  Eddy  (born  January  27,  1838, 
in  New  Britain,  Connecticut,  and  died  there  June  12,  1902)  was 
the  son  of  William  H.  and  Mary  (Dobson)  Eddy,  whose 
ancestors  settled  in  Plymouth  in  1630.  He  was  connected  with 
the  Stanley  Rule  &  Level  Company  for  forty-five  years,  served 
two  terms  in  the  New  Britain  Common  Council,  and  was  presi- 
dent of  the  New  Britain  Gas  Light  Company.  His  wife  (born 
March  13,   1841,  in  New  London,  Connecticut;    died  May  20. 


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1916)  was  the  daughter  of  George  S.  and  Nancy  S.  (Chapman) 
Brown.  Her  ancestors  were  also  English,  settling  in  Plymouth 
in  1620. 

Charles  B.  Eddy  was  born  November  29,  1872,  in  New  Britain, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  high  school  in  his  native  town.      He 


CHARLES    B.    EDDY 


received  philosophical  oration  appointments,  honors  in  political 
science  in  Senior  year,  was  a  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  Yale  Union,  and  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Alpha 
Delta  Phi. 

A  year  in  the  Yale  Law  School  was  succeeded  by  the  same 
length  of  time  at  the  New  York  Law  School,  where  he  secured 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1895.  He  was  admitted  to  the  New 
York  Bar  in  December  of  that  year  and  has  since  practiced  in 
New  York  City.  On  August  1,  1901,  he  entered  the  office  of 
Reed,  Simpson,  Thacher  &  Barnum  (now  Simpson,  Thacher  & 
Bartlett)  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  firm  since  1905. 

In  May,  1918,  he  was  appointed  assistant  to  the  general  counsel 
of  the  U.  S.  Railroad  Administration,  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
in  January,  191 9,  associate  director  of  the  Division  of  Finance. 
He  will  still  retain  his  interest  in  the  firm  of  Simpson,  Thacher  & 
Bartlett. 


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He  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society  of 
Arts,  London,  and  a  member  of  the  University,  Yale,  and  Grolier 
clubs,  the  Down  Town  Association  of  New  York,  and  the  Biblio- 
graphical Society  of  London. 

He  was  married  June  7,  1902, 
in  Alexandria,  Virginia,  to  Ellen 
Coolidge,  daughter  of  John 
Woolfolk  Burke,  a  banker,  and 
Martha  Jefferson  (Trist)  Burke. 
They  have  three  children,  all 
born  in  Plainfield,  New  Jersey: 
James  H.,  born  January  29, 
1907;  Charles  Brown,  Jr.,  born 
October  19,  1908,  and  John 
Burke,  born  November  15, 
1910. 


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John  Percival  Edmison 

Editorial  writer,  The  Star,  Indianapolis,  Indiana 

Edmison  is  a  son  of  Percival  Hall  and  Margaret  (Jameson) 
Edmison,  who  were  married  November  19,  1868,  and  had  two 
other  children:  Thomas  George  Edmison,  and  Margaret  Grace 
(Edmison)  Brown.  Percival  H.  Edmison  was  born  February 
24,  1844,  in  Peterborough,  Ontario,  Canada,  where  he  lived  until 
1867,  when  he  moved  to  Winthrop,  Iowa,  and  was  there  owner 
of  a  general  store  until  1880.  He  has  since  been  occupied  with 
real  estate  interests  and  with  a  lumber  and  building  materials 
business  in  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota.  His  parents  came  from 
England  to  Canada  about  1830.  On  January  8,  1908,  he  married 
Lillian  M.  Thomas.  Our  classmate's  mother  was  born  May  15, 
1843,  m  Caledonia,  New  York,  and  died  December  26,  1895,  in 
Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota.  Her  parents  were  Thomas  and 
Margaret  (Mouat)  Jameson,  who  came  from  Lerwick,  Shetland 
Isles,  to  America  in  1841. 

John  P.  Edmison  was  born  September  1,  1869,  in  Winthrop, 
Iowa,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Sioux  Falls  High  School  and  at 
Andover.  In  college  he  contributed  to  the  Courant  and  Record, 
won  the  lightweight  wrestling  cup  at  the  winter  athletic  meet  in 
Junior  year  and  was  a  member  of  Zeta  Psi. 


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20I 


In  Sioux  Falls  he  studied  law  for  a  year  and  in  December, 
1894,  was  admitted  to  the  South  Dakota  Bar.  He  practiced  this 
profession  in  Sioux  Falls  from  1894  to  1897.  From  1898  to 
1914  he  was  associated  with  the  St.  Paul  Pioneer  Press  in  various 


JOHN    P.    EDMISON 

editorial  capacities,  and  became  associate  editor  in  1912.  Since 
July,  1914,  he  has  been  on  the  staff  of  the  Indianapolis  Star.  He 
is  the  author  of  "Stories  of  the  Northland,"  a  book  on  Scandi- 
navian mythology,  published  in  1909  by  the  Penn  Publishing 
Company. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics. 

He  has  not  married. 


Charles  Hull  Ewing 

In  the  real  estate  and  investment  business,  1642  West  Lake  Street,  Chicago, 

Illinois 

Residence,  Lake  Forest,  Illinois 

Ewing  is  the  youngest  child  of   Robert   Finley   and  Aurelia 
(Culver)  Ewing,  who  were  married  December  1,  1853.     Of  their 


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two  other  children,  the  daughter,  Emily  (Mrs.  John  F.  Peck), 
is  living.  Robert  F.  Ewing  (born  October  14,  1823,  in  Victor, 
New  York;  died  July  28;  1897,  in  South  Dayton,  New  York) 
was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Margaret   (Morford)   Ewing,  and 


CHARLES    H.   EWING 


grandson  of  Rev.  James  Ewing,  a  Scotchman  who  settled  in 
Princeton,  New  Jersey,  and  Amelia  Bailey  (Emery)  Ewing. 
His  middle  name  was  that  of  his  mother's  uncle,  Samuel  Finley, 
fifth  president  of  Princeton  College,  1761-1766.  Mr.  Ewing 
was  a  civil  engineer  connected  with  a  number  of  different  rail- 
roads ;  he  held  the  position  of  chief  engineer  with  several  roads 
which  were  afterwards  absorbed  by  the  Erie  System.  Aurelia 
(Culver)  Ewing  (born  March  9,  1828,  in  Little  Valley,  New 
York;  died  December  20,  1914,  in  Seattle,  Washington)  was  the 
daughter  of  Lyman  Culver  of  Wallingford,  Connecticut,  ances- 
tors from  Wallingford,  England,  having  settled  there.  Her 
grandfather  served  in  the  War  of  181 2  and  her  great-grandfather 
in  the  Revolution. 

Charles  H.  Ewing  was  born  July  11,  1868,  in  Randolph,  New 
York,  and  attended  Oberlin  Preparatory  Department  and  Oberlin 
College  before  entering  Yale.  Entering  Yale  in  1890,  he  main- 
tained a  high  stand  and  received  high  oration  appointments,  a 


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203 


second  DeForest  Mathematical  Prize,  an  elocution  prize,  had 
charge  of  the  siderial  clocks  at  the  Yale  Observatory  and  of  the 
field  work  in  surveying.  He  sang  on  the  Second  Glee  Club  and 
the  College  Choir,  played  on  the  Senior  Class  Football  team,  was 
a  member  of  the  Yale  Union  and  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  is  a 
graduate  member  of  the  Elihu  Club. 

During  the  summer  following  graduation  he  was  in  charge  of 
the  Yale  exhibit  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  in  Chicago, 
and  then  registered  as  a  student  in  the  Law  School  of  North- 
western University.  In  1895-96  he  was  manager  of  the  Moor- 
head  Stave  Company,  Moorhead,  Mississippi.  He  then  went  to 
Chicago  as  manager  of  the  Helen  Culver  Fund  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  continuing  in  this  position  until  1908  and  also 
transacting  general  real  estate,  insurance  and  investment  busi- 
ness, in  which  he  is  now 
engaged.  He  is  president  of 
the  Napanee  Plantation  Com- 
pany, secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Southern  Gypsum 
Company,  treasurer  of  Walter 
S.  Syrett  &  Company,  engi- 
neers and  contractors,  and  a 
director  of  the  First  National 
and  State  Banks  of  Lake 
Forest,  and  of  the  Booth 
Fisheries  Company.  In  1906- 
07  he  was  president  of  the 
People's  Water  &  Light  Com- 
pany, Harrisburg,  Illinois, 
and  from  1909  to  191 1,  a 
director  of  the  Midland  Casu- 
alty Company. 

He  has  held  various  offices 
in  the  Lake  Street  Business 
Men's  Association.  He  is  in- 
terested in  the  Hull  House 
Social  Settlement  and  has 
served  as  a  director  of  the  Legal  Aid  Society,  Chicago  Geographic 
Society,  and  Committee  of  Fifteen.  Formerly  a  Republican,  he 
is  in  accord  with  Democratic  principles  under  President  Wilson's 
leadership. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  University  and  City  clubs  of  Chicago, 


KATHERINE    AND    HELEN 


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the  Onwentsia  Club  of  Lake  Forest,  and  is  a  life  member  of  the 
Press  Club,  Art  Institute,  and  Chicago  Geographic  Society.  He 
belongs  to  Phi  Delta  Phi  legal  fraternity. 

He  was  married  October  8,  1906,  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
to  Mary  Sleight,  daughter  of  Thomas  H.  Everts,  M.D.  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  1855,  and  Caroline  Griffin  (Sleight)  Everts. 
Mrs.  Ewing  studied  at  the  University  of  Minnesota  and  at  the 
School  of  Expression  in  Boston ;  before  her  marriage  she  was 
instructor  in  vocal  interpretation  of  literature  and  dean  of  women 
at  the  State  University  of  Iowa.  There  are  two  daughters: 
Katherine  Everts,  born  November  8,  1908,  in  Chicago,  Illinois, 
and  Helen  Culver,  born  December  5,  1909,  in  Lake  Forest,  Illinois. 


ARCHER   L.    FAXON 


Archer  Linwood  Faxon 

Instructor  in  the  Boston  Latin  School,  Boston,  Massachusetts 

Residence,  31  Rosewood  Street,  Mattapan,  Massachusetts 

Faxon  is  a  son  of  Micah  Braman  and  Adelaide  V.  A. 
(Mayhew)  Faxon,  who  were  married  May  20,  1865,  and  had 
two  other  children,  daughters.     The  father,  born  May  18,  1838, 


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in  Randolph,  Massachusetts,  is  descended  from  English  people 
who  settled  in  Braintree  in  1632.  Mrs.  Faxon,  who  was  born 
April  28,  1841,  in  Buckfield,  Maine,  is  of  Scotch  ancestry.  She 
was  educated  at  Howard  Seminary,  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts. 

Archer  L.  Faxon  was  born  November  7,  187 1,  in  Holbrook, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Boston  Latin  School. 
He  received  oration  appointments  in  college  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Yale  Union. 

Except  for  the  years  1901  to  1905  when  he  was  associated 
with  Faxon  &  Ludden,  shoe  manufacturers,  of  Lynn,  he  has 
taught  school.  The  list  of  his  various  positions  is  as  follows: 
Glenwood  Collegiate  Institute,  Matawan,  New  Jersey,  1893-94; 
South  Orange  (New  Jersey)  High  School,  1894-99,  vice- 
principal,  1900;  Utica,  New  York,  1905-09;  Boston  Latin 
School  since  1909. 

He  was  married  June  30,  1904,  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  to 
Katharine  Hall,  B.A.  Mount  Holyoke  1901,  daughter  of  George 
W.  M.  Hall,  B.A.  Bowdoin  1859,  and  Katharine  F.  (Woodbury) 
Hall.  They  have  had  four  children:  Barbara  Adams,  born 
January  1,  1906;  Raymond  Hall,  born  November  23,  1907; 
George  Ryder,  born  January  29,  1909,  and  Linwood  Archer, 
born  January  29,  1914,  and  died  December  25,  1917. 


Charles  Jarvis  Fay 

Partner  in  the  firm  of  White  &  Case,  lawyers,  14  Wall  Street, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  Romer  Road,  Dongan  Hills,  Staten  Island 

Fay  is  the  only  son  of  Gilbert  Otis  and  Mary  Jane  (Jarvis) 
Fay,  who  were  married  April  14,  1869,  and  had  also  one  daughter, 
Elizabeth  Fay.  Born  November  8,  1834,  in  Wadsworth,  Ohio, 
the  son  of  Rev.  Gilbert  Fay,  B.A.  Brown  1826,  and  Clarissa 
(Walker)  Fay,  Gilbert  O.  Fay  was  graduated  at  Yale  College 
in  1859  and  three  years  later  received  his  M.A.  degree.  In  1862 
after  completing  the  course  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary  he 
was  licensed  to  preach  but  was  never  settled  as  pastor  of  a  church 
although  he  preached  regularly  at  the  institutions  with  which  he 
was  connected.  In  1862  he  married  Adelia  C.  Allen,  who  died 
in  November,  1866;    there  was  one  daughter  by  this  marriage. 


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From  1862  to  1880  he  was  a  teacher  and  principal  of  the  Ohio 
Institution  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  and  from  1880  until  his  death, 
February  18,  19 10,  professor  in  the  Hartford  School  for  the 
Deaf.     In  1880  Western  Reserve  University  conferred  upon  him 


CHARLES   J.   FAY 


the  degree  of  Ph.D.  Mary  (Jarvis)  Fay  was  born  September  9, 
1833,  in  Lowville,  New  York,  and  died  March  15,  1903,  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut. 

Charles  J.  Fay  was  born  August  26,  1871,  in  Columbus,  Ohio, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  Public  High  School. 
He  received  philosophical  oration  appointments,  was  elected  to 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Union.  He  is 
a  graduate  member  of  the  Elihu  Club. 

He  taught  one  year  at  Morris  Academy,  Morristown,  New 
Jersey,  and  one  at  the  Franklin  School,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  before 
commencing  the  study  of  law.  He  was  enrolled  in  the  New 
York  Law  School  during  1895-96  but  transferred  the  next  year  to 
Columbia  where  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
1899.  He  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  June,  1899, 
and  was  associated  with  the  firm  of  Seward,  Guthrie  &  Steele, 
1899-1900.  From  October,  1900,  to  February,  1907,  he  was  with 
Lord,  Day  &  Lord,  and  from  June,  1905,  to  February,  1907,  a 


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member  of  the  firm,  from  which  he  withdrew  to  become  a  partner 
in  White  &  Case,  his  present  firm.  The  other  Yale  partners  are 
George  B.  Case,  '94,  and  Irving  S.  Olds,  'oy. 

"My  law  work,"  he  writes,  "has  been  general  corporation 
work;  principally  banking  and  trust  company  and  corporate 
trust  work.  Have  been  active  in  work  of  war  contracts  for 
British  and  French  Governments  and  in  some  shipbuilding  mat- 
ters growing  out  of  the  present  war. 

"For  every  good  thing  I  have  in  life,  I  have  my  good  wife, 
my  father  who  sent  me  to  Yale,  and  my  partners  and  business 
associates  to  thank;  therefore,  my  interests  are  (1)  my  family 
and  home;  (2)  Yale  and  my  Class  of  '93,  and  (3)  my  work. 
With  such  fundamentals,  I  try  to  respond  to  the  requirements 
of  good  citizenship/' 

Fay  is  a  Republican.  He  belongs  to  the  Congregational 
Church. 

He  served  on  the  Vicennial  Reunion  Committee  and  is  chair- 
man of  the  Twenty-five  Year  Reunion  Committee.  He  is  a  life 
member  of  the  Yale  and  University  clubs,  and  belongs  to  the 
Down  Town  Association,  India  House,  Richmond  County 
Country  Club,  Century  Association,  and  the  Association  of  the 
Bar  of  the  City  of  New  York  (member  of  executive  committee, 
1917-20). 

He  was  married  June  26,  1909,  in  New  York  City,  to  Emily 
Bartlett,  daughter  of  Walter  and  Harriet  Alexina  (Ely)  Ives. 
They  have  four  children :  John  Gilbert,  born  June  2,  1910,  in 
New  York  City;  Jane  Ely,  born  November  20,  191 1,  in  Dongan 
Hills;  Charles  Jarvis,  Jr.,  born  February  12,  1914,  in  Dongan 
Hills,  and  Elizabeth  Ives,  born  July  8,  1916,  in  Dongan  Hills. 


Irving  Bruce  Ferguson 

Certified  public  accountant,  511  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Pelham,  New  York 

Ferguson  is  the  only  living  child  of  Dudley  Marvin  and 
Caroline  Virginia  (Hoppock)  Ferguson,  who  were  married  about 
1857.  The  father,  born  in  March,  1824,  in  Cohoes,  New  York, 
and  died  in  Brooklyn,  July  5,  1894,  was  a  merchant.  He  was  of 
Scotch  descent.  The  mother  was  born  July  9,  1836,  in  New 
York  and  is  of  Dutch  descent. 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Irving  B.  Ferguson  was  born  June  22,  1872,  in  New  York 
City,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  various  schools  in  Europe 

and  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Con- 
r  cord,    New    Hampshire.     He 

received  colloquy  appoint- 
ments and  was  a  member  of 
St.  Paul's  School  Club,  the 
University  Club,  and  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon. 

From  1893  to  1&96  he  was 
associated  with  the  New  York 
Life  Insurance  Company  at 
St.  Paul  and  for  five  years 
following  he  was  cashier  of 
their  West  Superior,  Wiscon- 
sin, office.  In  1901  be  be- 
came general  manager  of  the 
Holoplane  Glass  Company  in 
New  York  City,  and  from 
December,  1905,  to  1913,  he 
was  secretary  and  auditor  of 
the  American  District  Tele- 
graph Company.  In  1909  he 
passed  the  examinations  of 
the  New  York  State  Board  of  Regents  and  received  the  degree  of 
Certified  Public  Accountant.  Since  1913  he  has  practiced  that 
profession,  opening  his  own  office  that  year. 

In  191 1  he  was  elected  a  trustee  of  Pelham  and  also  served 
as  street  commissioner  and  second  deputy  chief  of  the  Volunteer 
Fire  Department.  He  filled  the  office  of  school  treasurer  for  one 
term.     In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

Since  1900  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Christian  Science 
Church.  He  belongs  to  the  Pelham  Country  Club,  the  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  Club,  the  New  York  State  Society  of  Certified 
Public  Accountants,  and  to  the  American  Institute  of 
Accountants. 

He  was  married  October  2,  1900,  in  Duluth,  Minnesota,  to 
Julia  Stanley,  daughter  of  Arthur  B.  and  Electa  W.  Chapin. 
They  have  three  children :  Irving  Bruce,  Jr.,  born  October  24, 
1901 ;  Dudley  Chapin,  born  November  14,  1906,  and  Jean,  born 
July  4,  191 1. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


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Henry  Horlbeck  Ficken 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Ficken  &  Erckmann,  lawyers,  Charleston, 
South  Carolina 

His  father,  Colonel  John  Frederick  Ficken,  was  born  June  16, 
1843,  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  where  he  has  always  made 
his  home.  He  received  an  M.A.  degree  at  the  College  of  Charles- 
ton and  also  studied  civil  law  at  the  University  of  Berlin.  He 
fought  in  the  Confederate  Army,  and  after  the  war  practiced 
law  with  Colonel  Isaac  Hayne.  He  served  for  many  years  in  the 
House  of  Representatives  of  South  Carolina,  resigning  in  1891  to 
become  mayor  of  Charleston.  He  is  president  of  the  South 
Carolina  Loan  &  Trust  Company  and  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  the  College  of  Charleston.  Of  Swedish  descent,  he  traces  his 
ancestry  from  Henrik  Friherr  von  Ficken,  who  was  Governor- 
General  of  Arensburg  in  1530.      He  married  on  May  30,  1871, 


HENRY    H.    FICKEN 


Margaret  Buckingham  Horlbeck,  daughter  of  Captain  Henry 
Horlbeck,  a  grandson  of  John  Adam  Horlbeck,  who  fought 
against  Sir  Henry  Clinton  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  She 
was  born  December  13,  1847,  and  died  May  14,  1873. 


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Henry  H.  Ficken  was  born  August  17,  1872,  in  Charleston, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  New 
Hampshire.  He  received  dispute  appointments  and  one-year 
honors  in  history;  was  colonel  of  the  Cleveland  Guards,  Class 
Historian,  and  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon.     In  the  Law  School  he  joined  Phi  Delta  Phi. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  South  Carolina  in  1894  after 
one  year  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  and  has  since  practiced  in 
Charleston.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Ficken,  Hughes 
&  Ficken  until  1912,  when  he  became  a  partner  in  Ficken  & 
Erckmann.  He  has  served  as  vice-president  of  the  South 
Carolina  Loan  &  Trust  Company  for  sixteen  years  and  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Security  Savings  Bank  since  1908.  In  addition,  he 
is  president  of  the  Myakka  Company  and  vice-president  of  the 
Charleston  Bridge  Company. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  the  War 
Council  of  the  Red  Cross,  and  a  vestryman  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  of  St.  John's  Parish.  He  belongs  to  the  Charleston 
Light  Dragoons  Reserve  Corps.  His  clubs  are  the  University  of 
New  York,  the  Charleston,  Carolina  Yacht,  Otranto,  and  Charles- 
ton Ancient  Light  Artillery. 

He  was  married  June  23,  1896,  to  Julia,  daughter  of  Isaac 
Ball  of  Rice  Hope  Plantation,  South  Carolina,  whose  family 
emigrated  in  1690  from  the  County  of  Devon,  England,  to 
Charleston,  and  of  Mary  Louisa  (Moultrie)  Ball,  a  descendant 
of  John  Moultrie,  laird  of  Seafield  Castle  in  Fife,  who  came  from 
Scotland  to  Charleston  in  1724.  They  have  three  children: 
Katharine  M.,  born  June  22,  1898;  Loti  Moultrie,  born  August  2, 
1902,  and  Margaret  Buckingham,  born  April  6,  191 5. 


John  Howe  Field 

Manager  of  the  New  York  sales  department,  The  American  Agricultural 
Chemical  Company,  2  Rector  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  Hewlett,  Long  Island,  New  York 

Field  is  the  elder  son  of  Henry  Francis  and  Annie  Louisa 
(Howe)  Field,  who  were  married  June  21,  1865,  and  had  one 
other  son,  William  Henry  Field,  B.A.  Yale  1899.  Henry  F. 
Field  (born  October  8,  1843,  m  Brandon,  Vermont),  son  of 
William  Morton  Field,  is  a  descendant  of  Zachariah  Field,  who 
came  to  America  from  England  in  1630  and  settled  in  Hartford, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


Connecticut.  Since  March,  1862,  he  has  lived  in  Rutland, 
Vermont,  shortly  after  this  date  entered  the  Rutland  County 
National  Bank,  of  which  subsequently  he  became  cashier  and 
president.     He  served  as  state  senator  in  1884,  was  a  member 


JOHN    H.    FIELD 


of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  1888,  and  was  state  treasurer 
from  1890  to  1898.  He  has  also  held  various  town  and  county 
offices  and  has  been  county  treasurer  since  1877 ;  he  is  president 
of  the  Rutland  City  Hospital.  Mrs.  Field  was  born  April  1, 
1843,  m  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  died  May  18,  1913,  in  Rut- 
land, Vermont.  The  daughter  of  John  and  Louisa  (Goddard) 
Howe,  her  ancestors  on  both  sides  were  of  English  origin  and 
came  early  to  America,  settling  in  Brookline,  Massachusetts.  Her 
mother,  Louisa  Goddard,  was  born  in  England,  and  was  the 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mehitable  (Dawes)  Goddard,  the  latter 
a  descendant  of  William  Dawes,  a  compatriot  of  Paul  Revere 
who  shared  in  the  "midnight  ride,"  going  in  another  direction  to 
spread  the  alarm. 

John  H.  Field  was  born  February  12,  1871,  in  Rutland, 
Vermont,  and  was  prepared  for  college  in  Rutland  and  at 
Andover.  He  received  oration  appointments,  was  one  of  the 
speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition,  and  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale 


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Literary  Magazine.  He  played  class  football  and  baseball  after 
Freshman  year,  served  on  the  Junior  Prom  and  Class  Day  com- 
mittees, was  a  Class  Deacon  and  president  of  the  University 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  was  president  of  the  Andover  Club,  and  a  member 
of  He  Boule,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

During  1893-94  he  studied  law  in  Rutland,  Vermont,  was  with 
the  Ogdensburg  (New  York)  Transit  Company  several  months, 
and  then  in  the  state  treasurer's  office  in  Montpelier  and  in  Rut- 
land until  1895.  He  was  then  connected  with  the  Great  Eastern 
Fertilizer  Company  in  Rutland  until  1899  when  he  was  appointed 
secretary  of  the  Milson  Rendering  &  Fertilizer  Company  of 
Buffalo,  which,  in  the  same  year,  became  a  subsidiary  of  the 
American  Agricultural  Chemical  Company.  He  lived  in  Buffalo 
until  April,  191 7,  when  he  was  made  manager  of  the  New  York 
sales  department  of  the  latter  company. 

He  is  a  Republican  In  politics.  From  1914  to  1916  he  served 
on  the  executive  committee  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of 
Buffalo,  and  for  two  years  was  president  of  the  Andover  Alumni 
Association  of  Western  New  York  and  of  the  Westminster  Club 
of  Buffalo.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Westminster  (Presbyterian) 
Church  of  Buffalo.     He  belongs  to  the  Yale  Club  of  New  York. 

He  was  married  October  29,  1895,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  to 
Amorette,  daughter  of  Erastus  Chester  and  Jane  (Hurlbut) 
Lockwood.  They  have  three  children:  John  Howe,  2d,  and 
Amorette  Lockwood,  twins,  born  October  20,  1896,  in  Rutland, 
Vermont,  and  Maurice  Goddard,  born  February  25,  1902,  in 
Buffalo,  New  York.  The  daughter  married,  on  June  29,  191 8, 
Ensign  DeLancey  Rochester,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Field  writes  :  "As  the  years  pass,  may  the  friends  remain.  As 
the  anniversaries  come,  may  the  men  of  '93  go  to  them,  with 
hearts  as  young  and  seats  as  comfortable  as  in  the  good  old  days 
when  our  comradeship  first  perched  upon  the  Yale  fence." 


George  Ernest  Folk 

General  patent  attorney,  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Company, 
195  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Residence,  New  Rochelle,  New  York 

Folk  is  a  son  of  Levi  E.  and  Louisa  A.  (Neel)  Folk,  who 
were  married  in  November,  1868,  and  had  three  other  children, 
sons.     By  a  previous  marriage  his  father  had  three  sons  and  his 


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213 


mother  one  son.  The  father,  born  January  15,  1830,  in  South 
Carolina,  and  died  May  31,  1880,  in  Newberry,  that  state,  was  a 
planter.  He  was  of  German  and  English  ancestry,  his  first 
American  ancestor  having  moved  from  Germany  to  England  and 


GEORGE    E.    FOLK 


later  (about  1732)  from  England  to  South  Carolina.  Louisa  A. 
(Neel)  Folk  was  born  February  9,  1836,  and  died  November 
26,  1890,  in  Newberry.  Her  great-grandparents  came  from  Ire- 
land, England,  and  France,  respectively,  and  settled  in  South 
Carolina,  one  of  them  being  a  Quaker,  who  moved  there  from 
the  North. 

George  E.  Folk  was  born  April  13,  1872,  in  Newberry,  and 
was  prepared  at  Newberry  College.  At  Yale  he  received  one- 
year  honors  in  political  science. 

The  first  four  years  after  graduation  he  was  connected  with 
schools  in  Texas,  teaching  at  the  Ball  High  School,  Galveston, 
and  serving  as  principal  of  the  Cleburne  High  School.  In  1894 
he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Yale.  From  1898  to  1905  he 
was  an  examiner  in  the  Patent  Office  in  Washington  and  in  1904 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts  of  the  District  of  Columbia. 
The  following  year  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of  patent  law  in 


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Chicago,  Illinois,  and  from  July,  1906,  to  June,  191 5,  was  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Barton  &  Folk.  He  then  moved  to  New 
York  to  become  the  patent  attorney  for  the  American  Telephone 
&  Telegraph  Company,  and  in  July,  19 17,  was  made  general 
patent  attorney. 

He  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church. 
His  clubs  are  the  Chicago  Law,  Yale,  and  Machinery  of  New 
York,  and  Wykagyl  Country. 

He  was  married  June  6,  1895,  m  Mexia,  Texas,  to  Mary  Helen 
Jackson,  who  attended  Southwestern  University,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  W.  Jackson,  merchant  and  banker,  and  Ellen  T.  (Rice) 
Jackson.  They  have  had  three  children:  Eloise,  born  May  9, 
1897,  in  Marble  Falls,  Texas ;  died  April  4,  1900,  in  Washington, 
D.  C. ;  Margaret  Lois,  born  June  21,  1903,  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
and  Mary  Theodosia,  born  June  20,  1909,  in  Chicago,  Illinois. 


George  Mark  Foos 

Audubon  Plantation,  Hope  Villa,  Louisiana 

George  M.  Foos,  son  of 
John  Foos,  was  born  April 
3,  1871,  in  Springfield,  Ohio, 
and  was  prepared  for  college 
at  Golden  Hill,  Kingston, 
New  York.  After  gradua- 
tion he  entered  machine  shops 
in  Springfield,  Ohio,  but  from 
1894  to  1896  was  in  Baton 
Rouge,  Louisiana,  as  secre- 
tary of  the  Baton  Rouge 
Sugar  Company.  He  re- 
turned to  Springfield  in  1897 
and  for  two  years  was  with 
the  Foos  Gas  Engine  Com- 
pany. During  1900  he  was 
prospecting  for  gold  in  the 
Cape  Nome  region  and  the 
following  year  was  again  with 
the  Baton  Rouge  Sugar  Com- 
pany. Since  1905  he  has 
been  engaged  in  planting  at  Hope  Villa,  Louisiana. 


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215 


He  was  married  April  25,  1905,  to  Leah  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Edwin  S.  Kelly  of  Springfield,  Ohio.  They  have  three 
children:  Patti  Linn,  born  October  10,  1906;  Edwin  Kelly,  born 
October  21,  1908,  and  Mary  Theodosia,  born  June  20,  1910. 


JAMES    C.    FOX 


James  Charles  Fox 

President  of  the  Fox-Becker  Granite  Company,  Rapello  Avenue, 
Middletown,  Connecticut 

Residence,  275  Washington  Terrace,   Middletown,   Connecticut 

Fox  is  a  son  of  Dr.  David  Austin  Fox  and  Aurelia  (Wood) 
Fox,  who  were  married  June  6,  1866,  and  had  three  other  chil- 
dren: Pauline  S.  (Fox)  Murdock,  David  A.  Fox,  Jr.,  M.D. 
New  York  University  (Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College)  1902, 
and  Theresa  A.  (Fox)  Miner.  David  A.  Fox,  Sr.  (born  August 
14,  1829,  in  Lebanon,  Connecticut;  died  July  2,  1903,  in  Clinton, 
Connecticut),  was  graduated  from  New  York  University  with 
the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1852,  and  thereafter  practiced  his  profes- 
sion, from  1853  to  1865  in  Thompsonville,  Connecticut,  and  from 
1865  to  1903  in  Clinton.     His  wife  was  born  in  Clinton,  Decern- 


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ber  23,   1839,  and  died  there  on  January  23,   1917.     Ancestors 
on  both  sides  of  the  family  were  English. 

James  C.  Fox  was  born  June  6,  1869,  m  Clinton,  where  he  was 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Morgan  High  School.  He  received 
a  first  dispute  Junior  appointment,  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man Baseball  Team  and  of  the  Yale  Union. 

After  graduation  he  located  in  Middletown  and  from  1893  to 
1898  held  the  position  of  deputy  collector  of  internal  revenue. 
On  January  1,  1898,  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Fox  & 
Becker,  dealers  in  marble  and  granite,  and  is  now  president  of 
the  Fox-Becker  Granite  Company,  which  succeeded  the  original 
firm.  For  several  years  he  was  a  director  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Middletown  and  the  Middletown  Trust  Company, 
trustee  of  the  Farmers'  and  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  and  the 
Middlesex  Banking  Company,  and  vice-president  of  the  Central 
National  Bank,  but  resigned  from  all  of  these  this  year  as,  for 
business  reasons,  he  was  unable  to  give  proper  attention  to  the 
banking  interests.  He  is  still  a  director  of  the  Arrigoni  Coal 
Company. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  was  married  April  11,  1894,  in  Niantic,  Connecticut,  to 
Florence  W.,  daughter  of  Rev.  Charles  E.  Becker,  president  of 
Benedict  College,  Columbia,  South  Carolina,  and  Mary  (Curtis) 
Becker.  They  have  two  sons,  both  born  in  Middletown:  James 
Charles,  Jr.,  born  September  20,  1895,  and  Frederick  Curtis, 
born  September  19,  1902.  The  elder  son  graduated  from 
Williams  College  in  1916  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1920  at  Johns  Hopkins  University;  the  younger  is  attending  the 
Loomis  Institute  in  Windsor,  Connecticut. 


Edson  Fessenden  Gallaudet 

Chairman  of  Board  of  Directors  and  chief  engineer,  Gallaudet  Aircraft 
Corporation,  East  Greenwich,  Rhode  Island 

Residence,  152  George  Street,  Providence,  Rhode  Island 

The  first  member  of  the  Gallaudet  family  in  this  country  was 
one  of  a  company  of  Huguenots  who  left  La  Rochelle,  France, 
and  settled  New  Rochelle,  New  York.  Thomas  Hopkins 
Gallaudet,  grandfather  of  our  classmate,  was  graduated  at  Yale  in 
1805  and  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1812 ;  he  is  known 


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217 


as  the  founder  of  deaf-mute  instruction  in  America.  His  son, 
Edward  Miner  Gallaudet  (born  February  5,  1837,  in  Hartford, 
Connecticut;  died  in  that  city  September  26,  1917),  was  gradu- 
ated from  Trinity  College  in  1856,  received  an  honorary  Ph.D.  at 


EDSON    F.    GALLAUDET 


Yale  in  1895,  and  LL.D.  at  George  Washington  University  in 
1869,  and  was  a  Chevalier  of  the  Legion  of  Honor.  In  1856  he 
took  charge  of  a  school  in  Washington  for  Amos  Kendall,  and 
developed  it  into  the  National  Deaf  Mute  College  (now  known 
as  Gallaudet  College),  of  which  he  was  president  until  191 1.  He 
first  married  Miss  Jane  Fessenden  of  Hartford,  and  their  children 
are  Katherine  Fessenden  and  Grace  (Gallaudet)  Closson.  In 
December,  1868,  he  married  Susan  Denison,  a  descendant  of 
Colonel  George  Denison  of  Stonington,  Connecticut.  She  was 
born  January  24,  1847,  in  Royalton,  Vermont,  and  died  Novem- 
ber 3,  1903,  in  Washington,  D.  C.  Their  children  are  Denison 
Gallaudet,  Amherst  ex-'g^,  Edson  F.,  Herbert  Draper  Gallaudet, 
Yale  '98,  and  Marion   (Gallaudet)   Edgerton. 

Edson  Gallaudet  was  born  April  21,  1871,  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  Public  High 
School.     He  received  an  oration  Junior  appointment  and  a  dis- 


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sertation  in  Senior  year;  was  stroke  of  the  Class  Crew  in  Fresh- 
man and  Sophomore  years  and  of  the  University  eight  in  Junior 
and  Senior  years.  He  is  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull 
and  Bones. 

From  1893  to  J896  he  was  a  student  in  electrical  engineering 
at  Johns  Hopkins  University,  where  he  received  the  degree  of 
Ph.D.  in  1896.     One  year  with  the  Westinghouse  Company  in 
Pittsburgh  was  succeeded  by  three  at  Yale  teaching  physics  and 
coaching  the  crew.     In  July,   1900,  he  reentered  business  with 
William  Cramp  &  Sons'  Ship  &  Engine  Building  Company  at 
Philadelphia,  working  in  the  engineering  department  until  Feb- 
ruary, 1903,  when  he  went  with  the  National  Cash  Register  Com- 
pany of  Dayton.      After  a  few  months  he  resigned  to  become 
assistant  to  the  president  of  the  Stillwell-Bierce  &  Smith- Valie 
Company  of  Dayton,  and,  on  the  reorganization  of  this  company 
as  the  Piatt  Iron  Works,  he  was  made  general  superintendent. 
On  January   1,   1908,   he   organized   the   Gallaudet   Engineering 
Company,  mechanical  and  consulting  engineers  at  Norwich,  Con- 
necticut, and  about  19 10  began  to  devote  his  attention  to  aero- 
nautical engineering,  the  Gallaudet  Aircraft  Corporation  giving 
place  to  the  former  company  in   191 7.     He  is  chairman  of  the 
Board    of    Directors    and    chief    engineer.     July    16,    191 1,    he 
secured  his  aviator's  license  from  the  Aero  Club  of  America 
with  a  Wright  biplane  at  Garden   City,   and  in   the   following 
November  a  pilot's  brevet  from  the  Aero  Club  of  France  with  a 
Nieuport  monoplane  at  Mourmelon,   France.     Now  his   efforts 
are  being  expended  in  endeavors  to  make  the  Air  Service  of  the 
United  States  supreme.     He  says :     "The  work  of  our  company 
has  grown  into  the  development  of  advanced  types  of  battle  air- 
planes for  the  Government.     It  is  my  aim  to  produce  a  machine 
or  machines  that  shall  give  our  Air  Service  a  distinct  advantage, 
and  render  real  service  in  winning  the  war.     I  can  see  ways  of 
accomplishing  the  desired  results,  but  the  chief  difficulty  lies  in 
accomplishing  them  in  time.     All  my  efforts  and  the  efforts  of 
all  who  are  associated  with  me  are  spent  in  working  out  our  new 
machines  to  the  highest  possible  degree  of  perfection  in  the  mini- 
mum possible  time,  and  I  am  sure  we  shall  have  the  satisfaction 
of  seeing  the  results  of  our  efforts  before  this   summer.     The 
more  we  accomplish  the  more  we  are  called  on  to  do,  and  I  do 
not  expect  any  change  in  occupation  for  some  time  to  come." 

Gallaudet  is  a  Republican.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Park  Con- 
gregational  Church   of   Norwich.     His   clubs   are   the   Aero   of 


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219 


America,  Engineers,  and  the  American  Society  of  Aeronautical 
Engineers,  all  in  New  York  City. 

He  was  married  February  14,  1903,  in  Washington,  D.  C,  to 
Marion,  daughter  of  Senator  Francis  M.  Cockrell  of  Missouri, 
and  Anna  (Ewing)  Cockrell.  They  have  three  children  :  Francis 
Cockrell,  born  April  14,  1904;  Marion,  born  February  10,  1907, 
and  Denise,  born  November  27,  1909. 


*Thomas  Augustus  Gardiner 

Died  October  30,  1913 

Thomas    A.    Gardiner,    son    of    Thomas    Augustus    Gardiner, 
treasurer  of  Kings  County,  New  York,  and  Elizabeth  T.  Gar- 
diner,   was    born    January   8, 
1 87 1,  in  Brooklyn,  New  York.       ¥    :  — ■ 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Poly- 
technic Institute  of  Brooklyn 
and  in  college  was  an  editor 
of  the  Pot  Pourri,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  University  and 
Renaissance  clubs  and  Psi 
Upsilon. 

After  graduation  he  began 
work  with  Been  &  Sampson, 
stock  brokers ;  later  he  went 
to  Redmond,  Kerr  &  Com- 
pany, bankers,  in  New  York  g 
City,  being  admitted  to  part- 
nership January  1,  1898,  and 
at  the  same  time  entering  the 
Philadelphia  banking  house  of 
Graham,  Kerr  &  Company. 
On  July  1,  1904,  he  withdrew 
from  these  firms  and  was 
thereafter  a  member  of  the 
banking  house  of  Plympton,  Gardiner  &  Company  in  New  York. 

He  had  spent  one  year  at  Saranac  Lake  and,  in  the  fall  of 
1 91 2,  tubercular  tendencies  again  recurring,  he  returned  to 
Saranac,  where  he  remained  continually  until  his  death  on  Octo- 
ber 30,  1913. 

He  had  not  married. 


THOMAS    A.    GARDINER 


2  2o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Frank  Edwin  Gatchel 

Owner   of  W.   D.   Gatchel  &.Sons,  photographic   merchandise,   Republic 
Building,  Louisville,  Kentucky 

Residence,  Pewee  Valley,  Kentucky 

Gatchel  is  the  only  living  son  of  Welcome  Durf ee  and  Frances 
(Tripp)  Gatchel,  who  were  married  March  19,  1856,  and  had  two 
other  children:  Mary  (Gatchel)  Wilson,  who  graduated  from 
Wesleyan    College,    Cincinnati,    Ohio,    in    1878,    and    Albert    D. 


FRANK   E.    GATCHEL 


Gatchel  (died  September  11,  191 2,  in  Louisville,  Kentucky). 
Descended  from  Irish  immigrants  who  settled  in  Massachusetts 
about  1760,  W.  D.  Gatchel  was  born  June  28,  1825,  in  Farming- 
ton,  New  York.  From  1856  to  i860  he  lived  in  Chicago,  then 
spent  two  years  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  from  1862  to  1881  made 
his  home  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  In  the  latter  year  he  removed  to 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  where  he  continued  to  conduct  a  business 
in  photographic  materials,  which  he  had  started  in  1862.  He  died 
December  29,  1895,  in  Louisville.  His  wife,  who  was  of  English 
descent,  was  born  November  28,  1833,  in  W^ellsdale,  New  York, 
and  died  January  19,  1895. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  221 

Frank  Gatchel  was  born  November  3,  1869,  m  Cincinnati. 
Ohio,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Louisville  Male  High  School,  at 
Professor  Chenault's  private  school,  and  at  Phillips-Andover. 
In  college  he  received  second  colloquy  appointments,  was  Class 
Historian,  and  a  member  of  the  Andover  Club,  University  Club. 
University  Drum  Corps,  University  Banjo  Club,  and  Alpha 
Delta  Phi. 

After  graduation  he  entered  his  father's  business,  W.  D. 
Gatchel  &  Sons,  dealers  in  photographic  supplies.  Since  the 
death  of  his  brother  in  1912  he  has  been  the  sole  proprietor. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  but  "voted  for  Wilson  and 
strong  for  him."  He  is  a  deacon  and  treasurer  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church. 

He  was  married  April  14,  1903,  in  Pewee  Valley,  Kentucky, 
to  Alice  Craig,  daughter  of  Austin  and  Alice  (Craig)  Peay. 
Left  an  orphan  when  a  child,  she  was  formally  adopted  by  her 
grandmother  and  took  her  mother's  name  of  Alice  Craig.  She 
died  March  28,  1908.  They  had  two  children :  Frances  Craig, 
born  April  1,  1904,  and  William  Culbertson,  born  March  1,  1908. 

Gatchel  writes :  "At  last  I  have  been  up  in  the  attic,  while  the 
thermometer  was  hovering  around  zero,  and  on  a  'heatless  Mon- 
day' at  that,  and  have  been  down  to  the  bottom  of  a  trunk  full 
of  old  family  albums,  books,  and  war  time  collections  of  illus- 
trated papers,  and  got  out  the  old  family  Bible.  The  attic  was 
just  as  cold  as  it  is  pictured  in  melodramas  and  had  I  not  become 
a  disciple  of  Zoroaster,  after  this  long,  hard  winter,  I  would 
never  have  had  the  courage  to  go  up  there  without  my  arctics  and 
sleeping  bag. 

"Had  it  all  planned  to  make  a  fortune  and  retire  at  the  age  of 
forty  and  be  a  devil  of  a  fellow  thereafter. 

"Something  skidded  along  the  route  and  I  moved  to  a  suburb 
seventeen  miles  from  the  city.  Resigned  from  the  club.  Never 
joined  any  fraternal  orders  as  I  did  not  have  time  to  go  out 
at  nights.  For  the  past  twelve  years  have  been  raising  two  very 
fine  children  and  what  with  these  responsibilities  and  the  entire 
charge  of  the  business  for  the  past  six  years,  I  have  not  had 
time  for  outside  interests  or  recreations.  Took  a  vacation  twelve 
years  ago,  in  Florida,  and  it  has  lasted  me  ever  since.  But  it 
was  a  dandy  trip.  Living  out  in  the  country,  I  find  recreation 
and  relaxation  in  working  about  the  place  and  playing  with  the 
kids,  and  after  all  that  is  just  about  the  best  sport  I  know  of. 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


"Of  course  I  have  been  in  all  the  daily  civic  movements  like 
Boy  Scout  campaigns,  Red  Cross,  Liberty  Bond  and  the  many 
charitable  and  civic  improvement  campaigns.  But  I  have  never 
accepted  office  nor  taken  up  the  management  that  would  require 
time  away  from  home,  so  do  not  feel  that  they  should  be  men- 
tioned. 

"Sorry  that  I  have  not  pulled  off  some  big  league  stuff  for  the 
honor  of  the  Class." 


RUFUS    M.    GIBBS 


*Rufus  Macqueen  Gibbs 

Died  February  5,  1916 

Gibbs  was  a  son  of  John  Sears  and  Helen  (Macqueen)  Gibbs, 
who  had  two  other  children:  John  Sears  Gibbs,  Jr.,  and  Mrs. 
Charles  B.  Penrose.  The  father  (born  in  Bridgton,  Maine) 
was  the  son  of  Rufus  and  Adeline  (Sears)  Gibbs.  He  estab- 
lished the  Gibbs  Preserving  Company  at  Canton  and  continued 
as  president  until  1902.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Peter 
and  Sara  (Sullivan)  Macqueen,  who  came  to  the  United  States 
from  England  in  1840. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  223 

Rufus  M.  Gibbs  was  born  December  1,  1871,  in  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  but  spent  his  boyhood  in  Baltimore.  He  was  prepared 
for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  New  Hampshire.  In 
Freshman  year  he  was  awarded  a  Berkeley  Premium;  he  con- 
tributed numerous  poems  to  the  college  papers  and  was  elected 
an  editor  of  the  C  our  ant.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University 
Club,  and  Psi  Upsilon,  and  in  Senior  year  was  elected  to  Chi 
Delta  Theta,  and  chosen  Class  Poet. 

After  spending  the  year  following  his  graduation  on  the  staff 
of  the  University  Magazine  of  New  York  City,  Gibbs  returned 
to  Baltimore  and  entered  his  father's  business,  the  Gibbs  Pre- 
serving Company,  as  vice-president.  In  1902  he  succeeded  his 
father  as  president  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  his  death. 
He  had  also  been  president  of  the  Canned  Goods  Exchange  of 
Baltimore  and  was  a  director  of  the  Maryland  Trust  Company. 
From  19 1 3  to  191 5  he  served  as  president  of  the  Board  of  Trade 
of  Baltimore. 

He  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
and  shortly  before  his  death  had  been  instrumental  in  organizing 
a  men's  club  in  connection  with  it.  He  had  taken  an  active 
part  in  public  affairs  as  vice-president  of  the  Maryland  League 
for  Defense  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the 
Maryland  School  for  Boys. 

His  death  occurred  in  Baltimore,  February  5,  1916,  following 
an  operation  for  the  removal  of  a  tumor  at  the  base  of  the  brain. 
He  was  buried  in  London  Park  Cemetery  at  Baltimore. 

He  was  married  in  New  York  City,  April  20,  1898,  to  Cornelia 
Noyes,  daughter  of  James  F.  and  Harriet  (Noyes)  Andrews, 
and  sister  of  Charles  Prentiss  Andrews,  a  member  of  the  Yale 
Class  of  1918.  Their  children  are:  Helen  MacQueen,  born 
March  2,  1899;  Harriet  C,  born  June  21,  1900;  Frederick 
Andrews,  born  February  9,  1903,  and  Marian  Hungerford,  born 
May  17,  1904. 

The  following  tribute  is  taken  from  a  privately  printed  memo- 
rial volume : 

"He  was  one  of  the  most  constructive  men  I  have  ever  known,  and  one 
of  the  most  stimulating.  He  combined  in  the  rarest  degree  the  brain  of 
a  builder  and  statesman,  the  courage  of  a  warrior,  the  heart  of  a  child. 
Greatness  and  modesty  went  hand  in  hand;  more  than  any  man  I  have 
ever  known  he  gave,  though  not  a  minister,  the  strongest  spiritual 
impulse  and  direction  to  those  about  him.  .  .  .  No  man  ever  had  a 
truer  idea  of  democracy  and  no  man  in  our  midst  ever  labored  harder 
to  bring  about  a  better  understanding  between  the  employing  and  the 
employed  class." 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Giles  Frederic  Goodenough 

Pastor  of   Ledyard   Congregational   Church,   Ledyard,   Connecticut 
Residence,  Bill  Parsonage,  Ledyard,  Connecticut 
Mail  address,  R.  F.  D.  6,  Norwich,  Connecticut 

The  Goodenough  family  is  descended  from  Samuel,  son  of 
Thomas  Goodnow  and  Jane,  his  wife,  who  came  to  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony  in  1638.  On  the  other  side  they  trace  their  ancestry 
to  Pieter  Oostrander  and  Katrina,  his  wife,  who  reached  Kings- 


GILES    F.    GOODENOUGH 

ton,  New  York,  in  1660.  They  were  scalped  at  Esopus  but 
their  three  children  had  thirteen  children  each.  Rev.  Arthur 
Goodenough,  our  classmate's  father,  was  born  May  13,  1838,  in 
Jefferson,  New  York,  the  son  of  Giles  C.  and  Alida  (Cooper) 
Goodenough,  and  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1862  and 
from  the  School  of  Religion  in  1865.  Since  1870  he  has  been 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Winchester  Center,  Con- 
necticut, and  for  twenty-five  years  served  as  school  visitor,  hav- 
ing now  retired  from  this  office.  On  July  1 1,  1864,  he  married 
Hannah   Brett,   who   was   born   February    18,    1833,   in   Boston, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  225 

Massachusetts,  the  daughter  of  Cyrus  Brett,  a  direct  descendant 
of  Joseph,  one  of  the  eleven  children  of  John  Alden  and  Priscilla 
Mullens.  Her  mother,  Mary  Ann  Winchester,  was  descended 
from  Peter  Aspinwall,  1661,  and  Lieutenant  Griffith  Crafts,  who 
came  from  England  early  in  the  seventeenth  century.  Our  class- 
mate's brothers  and  sisters  are:  Edward  Winchester  Good- 
enough,  Yale  1887;  Mary  Alida  (Goodenough)  Sherwood, 
Mount  Holyoke  1886;  Francilla  Jane  Goodenough,  Helen  Evelyn 
Goodenough,  Mount  Holyoke  1891  ;  Silas  Hurlbut  Goodenough, 
accidentally  killed  November  20,  1893,  while  a  member  of  the 
Yale  Class  of  1895,  and  Gertrude  Lillian  Goodenough,  Mount 
Holyoke  1901. 

Giles  F.  Goodenough  was  born  February  23,  1872,  in  Win- 
chester, Connecticut,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Robbins  School, 
Norfolk,  and  at  the  Irving  Institute,  Tarrytown,  New  York.  In 
college  he  made  a  first  dispute  rank  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Yale  Union. 

From  1893  to  1896  he  was  a  student  at  the  Hartford  Theo- 
logical Seminary  and  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Nepaug,  Connecticut,  on  May  26,  1896. 
Subsequently  he  served  a  number  of  pastorates  in  Connecticut, 
on  December  6,  191 4,  coming  to  the  Ledyard  Congregational 
Church. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  has  been  active  in  the 
Grange  and  has  held  office  in  that  organization  since  he  entered 
it.  He  has  served  as  a  school  visitor  (Sharon)  and  as  a  member 
of  the  School  Board  of  Litchfield. 

He  was  married  June  17,  1898,  in  Nepaug,  to  Jessie  May, 
daughter  of  Gustavus  Cornelius  and  Frances  Kellogg  (Merrill) 
Beckwith,  who  died  August  30,  1905.  Their  children  are: 
Dorothy  Augusta,  born  June  1,  1899,  now  attending  Smith 
College ;  Frieda  Merrill,  born  May  19,  1902,  and  Barbara  Alden, 
born  October  14,  1903,  attending  the  Norwich  Free  Academy. 

On  July  31,  1907,  he  married  Nellie  Virginia,  daughter  of 
Edson  Warburton  Davis,  B.A.  Wesley  an  College  1869,  and  Anna 
(Griswold)  Davis.  They  have  four  children:  Virginia  Alice, 
born  August  1,  1908;  Arthur  Griswold,  born  April  27,  191 1  ; 
Priscilla  Pauline,  born  June  12,  1914,  and  Ralph  Frederic,  born 
November  11,  191 7. 

Goodenough  writes :  "My  ambition  in  college  was  to  be  a 
country  minister  or  a  foreign  missionary.     They  turned  me  down 


226  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


on  the  second  and  I  became  the  first.  I  lived  the  first  two  years 
on  $500  per  annum.  For  the  next  seven  years  my  annual  income 
ranged  from  $600  to  $700,  when  I  took  up  the  school  work.  As 
my  family  enlarged,  the  dollar  grew  smaller.  It  also  grew 
smaller  for  all  the  world.  I  found  the  necessity  of  enlargement 
somewhere,  much  as  I  liked  the  work  and  people.  For  another 
seven  years  I  tried  $750  per  annum,  trying  to  eke  out  on  litera- 
ture. My  total  literary  income  being  $11.50  didn't  do  as  well 
as  poultry  which  cleared  $2.00  per  hen.  Three  years  ago  a 
pastorate  with  a  fifty-acre  farm  and  $900,  as  the  living  measure, 
was  offered  me.  It  seemed  good.  Then  I  found  out  a  lot  of 
things.  First,  the  farm  had  to  be  stocked, — then  it  had  to  be 
zvorked.  The  first  has  doubled  my  floating  debt;  the  second 
demanded  my  too  scanty  time. 

"In  spite  of  that  I  believe  it  is  a  good  spot  to  dwell  in.  Gales 
Ferry  is  on  one  edge  of  my  jurisdiction, — Brewster's  Neck 
(Norwich  Hospital  for  the  Insane)  in  another  corner,  Lantern 
Hill  rises  on  corner  No.  3,  near  the  Indian  Reservation  for  what 
is  left  of  the  Pequots;  corner  No.  4  is  Quakertown  where  the 
descendants  of  the  'Jumping  John  Rogers/  by  whom  (and  at 
whom)  early  Connecticut  used  to  swear,  continue  to  enjoy  pecu- 
liarities of  religious  excitement.  I  rise  at  5-5.30  A.  M.  all  the 
year  round,  when  I  don't  sleep  over,  and  fall  asleep  over  my 
reading  at  8  or  9  p.  m.  I  am  hired  man,  chambermaid  to  two 
cows,  one  horse,  and  several  hens — 365  mornings  and  evenings; 
I  have  already  married  fifty  women, — only  two  of  whom  stayed 
with  me  long. 

"I  like  folks — all  sorts.  But  I  especially  like  a  two-fisted, 
rash  and  direct  animal  like  Rudyard  Kipling  in  literature,  and 
Theodore  Roosevelt  in  politics.  A  chap  that  will  make  a  hundred 
mistakes  will  make  something  else,  if  he  keeps  going.  The  things 
I  hate  most  are  the  oily  and  sleek,  the  dude  and  the  sneak. 

"I  like  to  preach.  Analysis,  interpretation,  illumination,  exhor- 
tation, suggestion,  arousement,  are  all  delightful  exercises  for  the 
tongue  or  the  mind.  Sympathy,  denunciation,  or  invitation, 
although  not  so  agreeable,  come  along  the  line  of  my  work  and  I 
try  to  look  after  them. 

"I  am  awkward  with  the  sick,  too  easy  on  the  fellow-sinner, 
and,  as  I  said  elsewhere,  am  no  money  raiser. 

"So  long  as  I  have  a  good  healthy  appetite  nobody  pities  a 
fat  man,  and  nobody  wants  them  to." 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


227 


James  Edward  Grafton 

Vice-principal  of  the  Crosby  High   School  and  principal  of   the  Crosby 
High   Evening  School,  Waterbury,   Connecticut 

Residence,  380  West  Main  Street,  Waterbury,  Connecticut 

Grafton's  parents  were  married  in  1858  and  had  four  other 
children,  a  son,  John  T.  Grafton,  who  studied  at  the  New  York 
College  of  Pharmacy,  and  three  daughters,  now  deceased.  The 
father,  James  Grafton,  was  born  in  1838,  in  Dublin,  Ireland, 
though  his  father  and  grand- 
father were  both  English. 
From  1856  to  1878  he  was 
connected  with  the  Norwich 
&  Worcester  Railroad,  and 
then  for  fifteen  years  con- 
ducted a  grocery  store.  He 
died  in  Norwich,  Connecticut, 
in  1912.  His  wife,  Mary 
(Carroll)  Grafton,  was  born 
in  1840,  in  Dublin,  Ireland, 
and  died  in  1900  in  Norwich. 

James  E.  Grafton  was  born 
July  27,  187 1,  in  Norwich, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  Nor- 
wich Free  Academy.  He  re- 
ceived philosophical  oration 
appointments,  two-year  hon- 
ors in  classics,  one-year  hon- 
ors in  German,  a  Berkeley 
Premium  of  the  second  grade, 
and  a  Lucius  F.  Robinson 
Latin  Prize  (second).     He  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

For  two  years,  1893-95,  he  was  principal  of  the  Evening  High 
School  in  Norwich,  Connecticut,  and  then  he  accepted  a  position 
as  teacher  of  Latin,  Greek,  and  mathematics  in  the  Crosby  High 
School,  Waterbury.  In  1906  he  was  appointed  vice-principal 
of  this  school  and  he  also  served  as  principal  of  the  Crosby  High 
Evening  School  in  1917. 

He  writes:  "I  was  asked  to  accept  the  principalship  of  the 
Crosby  High  School  here  in  Waterbury  but  I  refused  the  offer 
because  I  thought  I  could  be  of  more  service  to  the  city  if  I 


JAMES    E.    GRAFTON 


228 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


continued  as  a  teacher.  I  have  charge  of  all  the  Greek.  We 
have  kept  up  that  study  here  although  most  schools  have 
abandoned  it.  I  studied  Greek  under  two  of  the  best  teachers 
in  America,  Dr.  Robert  P.  Keep  at  the  Norwich  Free  Academy 
and  Professor  Seymour  at  Yale,  and  the  interest  and  enthusiasm 
of  these  two  men  has  not  ceased  to  actuate  me  yet.  I  can  vouch 
for  the  genuine  profit  that  any  industrious  student  may  derive 
from  the  study  of  Greek." 

Grafton  is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.     He  ha^ 
not  married. 


Charles  Andrew  Graham 

Physician,  1554  California  Street,  Denver,  Colorado 

Residence,  1109  Marion  Street,  Denver,  Colorado 

Graham  is  a  son  of  John  William  and  Mary  (Gardiner) 
Graham,  who  were  married  February  22,  1870,  and  had  two 
other  children,  a  son,  John  William  Graham,  Jr.,  B.A.  Princeton 
1897,  and  a  daughter  who  died  in  1875.     John  W.  Graham  (born 

May  2,  1843,  m  West  Fair- 
field, Pennsylvania,  and  died 
February  18,  1908,  in  Denver, 
Colorado)  served  as  Captain 
during  the  Civil  War  in  a 
Pennsylvania  regiment,  was 
graduated  at  Jefferson  Medi- 
cal College  in  Philadelphia  in 
1867,  and  then  practiced  his 
profession  in  the  West. 
From  1869  to  1877  ne  resided 
in  Corinne,  Utah,  and  then  in 
Denver  until  his  death.  He 
was  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry. 
Mrs.  Graham  was  born  April 
14,  1844,  in  Sharpsburg, 
Pennsylvania,  and  died  May 
14,  1877,  in  Philadelphia. 

Charles  A.  Graham  was 
born  December  4,  1870,  in 
Corinne,  Utah,  and  was  pre- 


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CHARLES    A.   GRAHAM 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  229 

pared  for  college  at  the  East  Denver  High  School.  He  received 
a  first  dispute  Senior  appointment  and  was  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Club. 

He  spent  four  years  in  the  Medical  School  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  and  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1898.  The  next  two  years  he  continued  his  graduate  work  in 
Vienna,  Austria,  and  then  commenced  to  practice  in  Denver. 
From  1902  to  1906  he  was  physician  to  the  Denver  City  and 
County  Hospital  and  he  held  the  position  of  associate  professor 
of  medicine  in  the  Denver  and  Gross  College  of  Medicine  from 
1903  until  the  school  was  consolidated  with  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  Colorado. 

He  is  an  elder  and  trustee  of  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church. 
He  belongs  to  the  American  Medical  Association,  Colorado  State, 
Denver  City  and  County  Medical  societies,  and  to  the  University 
and  Country  clubs. 

He  was  married  December  6,  1904,  in  Denver,  Colorado,  to 
Alice  McClintock,  B.A.  Smith  1899,  daughter  of  Washington 
and  Anna  (Colton)  McClintock.  They  have  a  son  and  daughter, 
both  born  in  Denver :  Elizabeth,  born  January  2,  1906,  and 
Charles  Andrew,  Jr.,  born  January  10,  i< 


Lawrence  Greer 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Pierce  &  Greer,  lawyers,  37  Wall  Street, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  126  East  Fifty-sixth  Street,  New  York  City 

Greer  is  a  son  of  the  Right  Reverend  David  Hummell 
Greer  and  Caroline  A.  (Keith)  Greer,  who  were  married  June 
29,  1869.  The  father,  born  March  20,  1844,  in  Wheeling,  West 
Virginia,  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  He  was  graduated  at 
Washington  and  Jefferson  College  in  1862  and  then  attended  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Seminary  at  Gambier,  Ohio.  He  holds  the 
honorary  degrees  of  D.D.  (Kenyon  College  1880,  Brown  1890, 
University  of  the  South  1901,  Harvard  1915),  LL.D.  (Wash- 
ington and  Jefferson  1902)  and  S.T.D.  (Columbia  1904).  He 
was  rector  of  Grace  Church,  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  from 
1871  to  1888,  and  of  St.  Bartholomew's  Church,  New  York  City, 
from  1888  to  1907,  when  he  was  appointed  Bishop  of  New  York, 
having  served  as  bishop  coadjutor  since  1904.     His  wife,  who  is 


23o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

of  Scotch  ancestry,  was  born  November  19,  1846,  in  St.  Louis, 
Missouri. 

Lawrence  Greer  was  born  October  25,   1872,  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  a  private  tutor 


LAWRENCE   GREER 


in  New  York  City.  He  received  a  dispute  appointment  in  Junior 
year,  sang  in  the  College  Choir  and  the  Glee  Club,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  University  Club,  He  Boule,  Psi  Upsilon,  and 
Scroll  and  Key. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  New  York  Law  School  with  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  cum  laude  in  1895,  and  admitted  to  the  New 
York  Bar  in  June  of  that  year.  He  commenced  the  practice  of 
law  in  the  office  of  John  F.  Dillon  in  New  York  City,  and  since 
May  1,  1902,  has  been  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Pierce  &  Greer. 
He  is  president  of  the  Western  Maryland  Railway  Company. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Union,  Knickerbocker,  Metropolitan, 
University,  and  Yale  clubs  of  New  York,  the  Rockaway  Hunting 
Club,  and  the  Turf  and  Field  Club. 

He  was  married  October  19,  1896,  in  Mamaroneck,  New  York, 
to  Georgiana,  daughter  of  Thomas  F.  and  Abby  R.  (Haskell) 
Oakes.      They  have  one  daughter,  Dorothy,  born  January  13, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  231 


1898;  married,  November  8,  1916,  Robert  C.  Myles,  Jr.,  of  New 
York  City. 

Greer  writes  :  "Since  a  puritanical  conscience  has  compelled  me 
to  admit  in  the  foregoing  deposition  that  I  have  held  no  public 
or  church  office,  have  no  military  record  or  philanthropic  interests, 
and  have  contributed  nothing  to  the  literature  of  the  nation,  it 
would  be  the  height  of  presumption  at  this  point  to  enter  upon 
an  elaborate  review  of  my  accomplishments,  plans,  or  aims.  As 
to  travels,  thty  have  been  of  a  commuting  character  in  the  sum- 
mer months,  and  many  weary  miles  to  and  from  the  West,  South, 
and  Southwest  in  the  interest  of  various  railroad  companies 
requiring  legal  aid  and  assistance.  There  remain  my  recreation 
or  special  interests  and  my  hobbies.  My  recreation  is  work. 
'Special  interests'  is  a  term  which  I  dislike — perhaps  because  of 
my  office  location  in  Wall  Street.  At  great  personal  sacrifice  I 
have  been  compelled  to  forego  hobbies  as  too  expensive,  both  in 
time  and  money.  On  the  subject  of  my  family  there  is  more 
room  for  enthusiasm.  It  is  small  but  compact.  Having  no  son 
of  my  own  I  acquired  a  son-in-law  about  a  year  ago,  and  have 
good  reason  to  believe  that  he  will  become  the  support  of  my 
declining  years.  My  profession  requires  me  both  to  think  and 
talk  for  my  living,  and  I  try  to  do  so  on  such  topics  as  necessity 
demands  from  time  to  time. 

"The  foregoing  should,  I  believe,  give  an  accurate  impres- 
sionistic sketch  of  your  beloved  classmate." 


William  Henry  Hackett 

Tax  collector,  City  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut 

Residence,  38  Lynwood  Place,  New  Haven,  Connecticut 

Hackett  is  one  of  eight  children  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Ellen 
(McCracken)  Hackett,  who  were  married  in  June,  1865.  His 
brothers  and  sisters  are:  Mary  E.  (Hackett)  Farrell,  Sarah  J. 
(Hackett)  Strack,  Catherine  C.  (Hackett)  Johnson,  Thomas  C. 
Hackett,  Jeremiah  W.  Hackett,  Margaret  (died  January  1,  1908), 
and  John,  died  January  15,  1914.  The  father  was  born  October 
2,  1837,  in  Kildare,  Ireland,  but  spent  all  his  life  after  1865  in 
New  Haven,  Connecticut,  where  he  died  May  17,  1899.  Mrs. 
Hackett  was  born  December  21,  1839,  in  Longford,  Ireland,  and 
died  May  20,  1914,  in  New  Haven. 


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William  H.  Hackett  was  born  July  15,  1871,  in  New  Haven, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School.  He 
received  dissertation  appointments. 

From  1894  to  1909  he  taught  Latin  in  the  Hillhouse,  now  New 
Haven,  High  School.     During  most  of  this  period  (1896-1909) 


iilii||||,: 

8k  — 1: 

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WILLIAM    H.    HACKETT 


he  was  also  principal  of  the  evening  session  at  the  Boardman 
Manual  Training  School,  and  from  1899  to  1906  of  the  evening 
session  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School.  In  1904  he  was  president 
of  the  Athletic  Association  of  the  New  Haven  High  School, 
from  1905  to  1909  Senior  Class  officer,  president  of  the  New 
Haven  Teachers'  League  and  editor-in-chief  of  the  New  Haven 
Teachers'  Journal. 

On  January  1,  19 10,  having  been  elected  on  the  Democratic 
ticket  the  preceding  fall,  he  took  office  as  tax  collector  of  New 
Haven  and  was  reelected  for  two  successive  terms,  and  again  in 
the  fall  of  1917.  During  the  term  when  he  was  not  in  office  he 
taught  at  the  Roxbury  Tutoring  School. 

In  191 2  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Connecticut  Tax  Col- 
lectors Association,  in  19 16  of  the  Young  Men's  Democratic  Club 
of  New  Haven,  in  19 17  chairman  of  the  New  Haven  Branch, 
Military  Training  Camps  Association  of  the  United  States,  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


233 


in  1918  a  member  of  the  Finance  Committee  of  the  New  Haven 
War  Bureau. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  He  belongs 
to  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  Graduates  Club,  and  New  Haven 
Lawn  Club. 

He  was  married  June  30,  1897,  in  New  Haven,  to  Elizabeth 
Mildred,  daughter  of  William  Connor,  a  concrete  contractor,  and 
Mary  Louise  (Egan)  Connor.  They  have  two  children,  both 
born  in  New  Haven :  Mildred  Louise,  born  April  23,  1898,  now 
attending  Smith  College,  and  Thomas  William,  born  February 
28,  1900,  graduated  from  the  New  Haven  High  School  in  1917. 


*Donald  Cameron  Haldeman 

Died  July  25,  1914 

Haldeman  was  the  son  of  Richard  Jacobs  and  Margaretta 
Brua  (Cameron)  Haldeman, 
who  were  married  in  1869, 
and  had  another  son,  Richard 
Cameron  Haldeman,  B.A. 
Yale  1896,  and  a  daughter. 
Richard  Jacobs  Haldeman, 
son  of  Jacob  Miller  and  Eliza 
Ewing  (Jacobs)  Haldeman, 
was  born  May  19,  1831,  in 
Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  died  October  1,  1885. 
The  family  came  from  Neuf- 
chatel,  Switzerland,  in  1722, 
and  settled  in  Rapho  Town- 
ship, Lancaster  County,  Penn- 
sylvania.  Mr.  Haldeman 
graduated  at  Yale  in  1851, 
and  then  went  abroad  and 
studied  in  the  universities  of 
Berlin  and  Heidelberg.  He 
held  the  office  of  secretary  of 

the  United  States  Legation  in  Paris,  France,  and  spent  the  earlier 
part  of  the  year   1854  in  St.   Petersburg,   Russia,  in  the  same 


DONALD    C.    HALDEMAN 


234  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

capacity.  From  1869  to  1873  he  was  a  representative  for  the 
Fifteenth  District  of  Pennsylvania  in  the  United  States  Congress. 
Margaretta  (Cameron)  Haldeman  was  born  in  Middletown, 
Pennsylvania,  the  daughter  of  Simon  Cameron,  a  United  States 
Senator,  a  member  of  President  Lincoln's  Cabinet,  printer,  con- 
tractor, and  banker,  and  Margaretta  Brua,  both  of  Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania,  and  sister  of  ex-United  States  Senator  J.  Donald 
Cameron. 

Donald  C.  Haldeman  was  born  July  29,  1871,  in  Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania,  and  prepared  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Massachusetts.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon.  After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  Harrisburg 
and  was  admitted  to  the  Pennsylvania  Bar  in  June,  1895.  He 
opened  an  office  for  practice  in  Harrisburg,  and  subsequently 
became  a  director  of  the  Harrisburg  Bridge  Company,  and  of 
the  First  National  Bank;  vice-president  of  the  Hagerstown 
Railway  Company;  a  manager  of  the  Harrisburg  Hospital;  a 
trustee  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Lunatic  Asylum,  and  vice- 
president  of  the  Hagerstown  Railway  Company.  He  continued 
in  active  practice  until  December,  1909,  when  he  was  compelled 
by  a  complete  nervous  breakdown  to  retire  from  all  business 
and  professional  activities. 

He  died  of  paresis,  July  25,  1914,  at  the  Pennsylvania  Hos- 
pital for  the  Insane,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  had 
been  confined  since  1909. 

He  was  married  August  30,  1909,  in  Harrisburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, to  Mary  Kelly.     They  had  no  children. 


Montgomery  Hare 

Partner  in  the  firm  of  Rush  &  Hare,  lawyers,  22  William  Street, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  109  East  Sixty-fourth  Street,  New  York  City 

Hare  is  a  son  of  J.  Montgomery  and  Mary  (Meredith)  Hare, 
who  were  married  June  6,  1867,  and  had  eight  other  children. 
The  four  who  are  now  living  are  Meredith  Hare,  Yale  '94; 
William  Hare,  Yale  '96  S. ;  Mary  M.  Hare,  and  Morin  S.  Hare, 
Yale  '05.  The  father  (born  January  20,  1842,  in  Princeton,  New 
Jersey)  is  the  son  of  Rev.  George  Emlen  Hare,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


'35 


was  educated  at  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Academy  of  Philadel- 
phia. He  is  resident  manager  of  the  Norwich  Union  Fire 
Insurance  Society  (Limited)  of  Norwich,  England,  and  since 
1888    has    resided    in    New    York    City.      His    first    American 


MONTGOMERY    HARE 


ancestor  came  from  London,  England,  in  1773.  Our  class- 
mate's mother,  daughter  of  Joseph  Dennie  and  Sarah  (Emlen) 
Meredith,  was  born  February  14,  1844,  in  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  died  May  7,  1907,  in  New  York  City.  Her 
ancestors  came  from  England  and  on  the  maternal  side  she  is 
descended  from  John  Morin  Scott,  B.A.  Yale  1746. 

Hare  was  born  February  5,  1870,  in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and 
was  prepared  at  the  Groton  School,  Groton,  Massachusetts.  In 
college  he  joined  the  University  Club  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

He  entered  Columbia  for  his  professional  training  and  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1897.  He  has  always  practiced  in 
New  York  and  since  1906  has  been  professionally  associated 
with  Hon.  Thomas  E.  Rush,  at  present  surveyor  of  the  Port  of 
New  York,  under  the  firm  name  of  Rush  &  Hare. 


236 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  From  1901  to  1906  he  was  assist- 
ant corporation  counsel  of  the  city  of  New  York. 

He  belongs  to  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

His  clubs  are  the  Knickerbocker,  Union,  Racquet  and  Tennis, 
Midday,  Tuxedo  Country,  and  Lido  Golf. 

He  was  married  March  11,  1908,  in  New  York  City,  to  Con- 
stance, daughter  of  John  E.  Parsons,  a  lawyer,  and  Mary 
(Mcllvaine)  Parsons.  They  have  two  children,  both  born  in 
New  York  City:  Meredith,  2d,  born  January  17,  1909,  and 
Montgomery,  Jr.,  born  August  21,  191 1. 


Clarence  Clifford  Harmstad 

Treasurer  of  the  Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Company,  176  Broadway, 

New  York  City 

Residence,  147  Jewett  Avenue,  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey 

Harmstad  is  the  only  son 
of  Francis  C.  and  Margaret 
(Weckerly)  Harmstad,  who 
were  married  February  19, 
1867,  and  had  also  one  daugrn 
ten  Adelaide  Harmstad  (died 
in  1880  in  Jersey  City).  The 
first  of  the  name  in  this 
country  was  Samuel  Harm- 
stad, who  emigrated  from 
Holland  to  Philadelphia  in 
J     ■tab.  J7S°-     The  parents  of  Francis 

Harmstad  were  Samuel,  born 
in  Philadelphia  in  1802,  and 
Wilhelmina  (Bargh)  Harm- 
stad, born  in  the  same  city  in 
1812.  He  was  born  April  9, 
1842,  and  has  lived  in  Phila- 
delphia, New  York,  and  Jer- 
sey City.  His  wife  was  born 
December  26,  1839,  in  Phila- 
delphia, the  daughter  of  George  Weckerly,  born  in  181 2,  and 
Hannah  (Hallowell)  Weckerly,  born  in  181 7,  both  in  Philadelphia. 


CLARENCE   C.    HARMSTAD 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  237 

The  first  ancestor  was  John  Hallowell,  who  came  to  Darby, 
Pennsylvania,  from  Hucknow,  parish  of  Sutton,  Nottinghamshire, 
in  1682;    his  Quaker  certificate  is  dated  December  19,  1682. 

Clarence  C.  Harmstad  was  born  June  9,  1871,  in  New  York 
City,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Polytechnic  Institute,  Brooklyn.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon. 

In  1895,  after  two  years'  study,  he  was  graduated  from  the 
New  York  Law  School  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  and  was 
admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar.  He  practiced  alone  until  May, 
1900,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Robert  E.  L.  Lewis 
under  the  firm  name  of  Lewis  &  Harmstad,  which  continued 
until  December  1,  1901.  He  then  became  connected  with  the 
Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Company,  was  elected  assistant  secretary 
in  1909,  and  in  1916  treasurer,  his  present  position.  Since  1906 
he  has  been  secretary  of  the  New  York  Investors'  Corporation, 
since  191 2  vice-president  of  the  Fire  Brokerage  Company,  and 
since  July,  1914,  secretary  of  the  City  Real  Estate  Company. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Yale  and  University  clubs  of  New  York. 

He  has  not  married. 


Allyn  Fitch  Harvey 

Vice-president  of  the  Pittsburgh  Steamship   Comparry,   Rockefeller 
Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Residence,  9619  Lake  Shore  Boulevard,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Harvey  is  a  son  of  Henry  Allyn  and  Mary  Cushing  (Williams) 
Harvey,  who  were  married  January  21,  1868,  and  had  two  other 
sons:  Perry  Williams  Harvey,  B.A.  1891,  and  Mervin  Clark 
Harvey,  B.A.  1899.  Born  on  July  21,  1842,  in  Chillicothe,  Ohio, 
Henry  A.  Harvey  lived  in  Cleveland  after  1846,  and  his  death 
occurred  there  February  16,  1881.  The  Civil  War  called  him 
from  his  studies  at  Western  Reserve  University  and  he  did  not 
complete  the  course.  He  spent  his  life  in  the  milling  business 
as  a  partner  in  H.  Harvey's  Sons.  Mrs.  Harvey  was  born 
January  18,  1846,  in  Cleveland,  and  died  there  April  21,  1907. 
The  Harvey  and  Williams  families  are  descended  from  early 
English  and  Scotch  settlers  in  Connecticut. 


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Allyn  F.  Harvey  was  born  February  3,  1871,  in  Cleveland,  and 
was  prepared  in  the  public  schools  and  by  a  private  tutor.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  and  University  Baseball  teams, 
secretary  of  the  University  Baseball  Association,  and  belonged  to 


ALLYN   F.    HARVEY 


the  University  Club,  He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Scroll 
and  Key. 

He  studied  bookkeeping  in  1893-94,  and  then  was  associated 
with  Pickands,  Mather  &  Company,  iron  ore  brokers,  Cleveland, 
until  1901.  From  1901  to  1907  he  was  assistant  general  manager 
of  the  Pittsburgh  Steamship  Company,  a  subsidiary  of  the  U.  S. 
Steel  Corporation;  1907  to  1916,  general  manager,  and  since 
1916  he  has  been  vice-president.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Cleve- 
land Folding  Machine  Company. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  rather  than  anything  else,  and 
further  describes  his  affiliations  as  "Mugwumpy."  He  is  chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Lake  Transportation  serving  under  the 
U.  S.  Shipping  Board.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Babies  Hospital 
and  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Red  Cross.  He 
belongs  to  the  Presbyterian  Church. 


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239 


His    clubs    are    as    follows:    in    Cleveland, — Union,    Tavern, 
Country,  Mayfield,  Chagrin  Valley  Hunt  and  Chamber  of  Com- 


merce;   in  New  York, — Yale  and  Racquet,  American  Iron  and 
Steel   Institute;    in  Duluth, — the  Kitchi   Gammi,   and   in   New 
Haven, — the  New  Haven  Lawn  Club  Association. 
He  has  not  married. 


Frank  Williams  Hastings,  Jr. 

Lawyer,  15  Exchange  Place,  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey 
Residence,  131  Overlook  Avenue,  Hackensack,  New  Jersey 

Of  English  descent,  the  first  ancestor  in  this  country  was 
Thomas  Hastings,  who  sailed  from  Ipswich,  England,  on  the 
ship  Elisabeth  in  1634  and  settled  in  Massachusetts.  Franklin 
W.  Hastings  was  born  February  20,  1839,  in  Buffalo,  New  York, 
and  attended  the  University  of  Rochester,  but  did  not  graduate. 
In  1859  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  and  several  years 
later  to  the  Pennsylvania;  since  1884  he  has  lived  in  Bradford, 
Pennsylvania.  On  June  2,  1868,  he  married  Margretta  Kin- 
near  Smiley,  by  whom  he  had  five  children:  our  classmate; 
William  Truman  Hastings,  LL.B.  Cornell  1895 ;  Mary  Williams 
(Hastings)   Lowe    (died  June  7,   1913,  in  Bradford)  ;  Harold 


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Edward  Hastings,  M.E.  Cornell  1901,  and  Nelson  Smiley  Hast- 
ings, B.A.  Yale  1905.  Mrs.  Hastings  was  born  April  23,  1840, 
in  Franklin,  Pennsylvania,  and  died  December  9,  1909,  in  Brad- 


FRANK    W.    HASTINGS,   JR. 


ford.  She  was  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  the  daughter  of  William 
and  Jane  Smiley. 

Frank  Hastings  was  born  December  8,  1869,  in  Franklin, 
Pennsylvania.  He  was  prepared  at  the  Bradford  High  School 
and  entered  Yale  in  Sophomore  year  from  Western  Reserve 
University.  He  received  an  oration  appointment  in  Junior  year 
and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  studied  law  in  Bradford  from  1893  to  1895,  and  at  the  New 
York  Law  School  in  1895-96,  being  admitted  to  the  Pennsylvania 
Bar  in  the  latter  year.  He  commenced  to  practice  in  Bradford 
in  1896  but  in  November,  1898,  opened  an  office  in  Jersey  City, 
where  he  has  since  been  located. 

He  has  served  as  master  and  special  master  in  chancery, 
Supreme  Court  examiner,  and,  since  December,  1909,  as  secretary 
of  the  Hudson  County  Bar  Association.  In  December,  1917,  he 
was  appointed  an  associate  member  of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  241 

of  Jersey  City,  and  since  January,  1918,  he  has  been  assisting 
drafted  men  on  the  questionnaire. 

He  is  a  Republican.  In  April,  191 7,  he  joined  the  Home 
Defense  League  of  Hackensack,  which  is  uniformed  and 
organized  on  a  military  basis.  He  belongs  to  the  Episcopal 
Church.  He  is  a  member  (formerly  president)  of  the  Univer- 
sity Club  of  Hudson  County. 

He  was  married  September  14,  1898,  in  Bradford,  Pennsyl- 
vania, to  Edith  Janet  Straight,  B.A.  Leland  Stanford,  Junior, 
University  1896,  daughter  of  Russell  J.  Straight,  formerly  an  oil 
producer  and  refiner,  and  Augusta  (Shirley)  Straight.  They 
have  had  five  children :  Russell  Straight,  born  August  4,  1899 ; 
Barbara  Tudor,  born  August  12,  1901 ;  Seth  Truman,  born 
March  3,  1904;  Randall,  born  November  25,  1905,  and  Janet 
Shirley,  born  February  4,  19 10. 

Russell  Hastings  enlisted  on  April  22,  1918,  in  the  Medical 
Department,  U.  S.  Army,  for  ambulance  service.  He  died  of 
pneumonia  at  Fort  Slocum  on  October  8,  191 8. 


Logan  Hay 

Partner  in  the  firm  of  Brown,  Hay  &  Creighton,  lawyers,  514  East  Monroe 
Street,  Springfield,  Illinois 

Residence,   1220  West  South  Grand  Avenue,  Springfield,   Illinois 

Hay  is  the  only  son  of  Milton  and  Mary  Trigg  (Logan)  Hay, 
who  were  married  in  i860,  and  had  one  other  child,  Kate  Logan 
(Hay)  Brown.  Milton  Hay  (born  July  3,  181 7,  in  Lexington, 
Kentucky;  died  September  17,  1893,  in  Springfield,  Illinois) 
was  the  son  of  John  and  Jemima  (Coulter)  Hay.  He  was  of 
French  descent,  his  ancestors  having  settled  at  York,  Pennsyl- 
vania, about  1750.  Mr.  Hay  was  a  lawyer  and  lived  in  Illinois 
after  he  was  fifteen  years  old.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Con- 
stitutional Convention  of  Illinois,  1870,  and  a  representative  to 
the  General  Assembly  from  1872  to  1874.  Catherine  Forbes  was 
his  wife  by  a  previous  marriage.  Our  classmate's  mother  was 
also  a  Kentuckian  by  birth;  she  died  March  4,  1874.  Her 
ancestors  came  to,  Virginia  from  Scotland  about  1750. 

Logan  Hay  was  born  February  13,  1871,  in  Springfield, 
Illinois,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Lawrenceville  School  in  New 


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Jersey.  He  held  a  philosophical  oration  stand  for  the  entire 
course,  received  a  third  DeForest  Mathematical  prize,  two-year 
honors  in  political  science/  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 


LOGAN    HAY 


He  was  a  member  of  the  Lawrenceville  Club,  University  Club, 
Class  Day  Committee,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Skull  and 
Bones. 

During  1893-94  he  was  again  at  Yale  as  a  student  of  economics, 
but  the  following  year  he  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1897  with  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
cum  laude.  From  1895  to  1897  ne  was  an  editor  of  the  Harvard 
Law  Journal.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Illinois  the  same 
year  and  began  practice  in  the  firm  of  Brown,  Wheeler,  Brown 
&  Hay.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Brown,  Hay  & 
Creighton. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  he  was  an  alderman  from  1903  to 
1906,  served  in  the  Illinois  Senate  from  1906  to  1914,  from  1911 
to  191 3  serving  as  a  member  of  the  joint  legislative  committee 
on  County  and  Township  Organization,  and  in  1914  of  the 
Efficiency  and  Economy  Committee. 

He  is  vice-president  of  the  Illinois  State  Bar  Association. 


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243 


He  was  married  November  9,  1899,  in  Springfield,  to  Lucy 
Langdon,  daughter  of  George  P.  and  Cornelia  (Pope)  Bowen. 
They  have  two  daughters,  both  born  in  Springfield:  Mary 
Douglass,  born  October  21,  1900,  who  entered  Bryn  Mawr  College 
in  1918,  and  Alice  Houghton,  born  December  18,  1901,  who  enters 
Rosemary   Hall. 


^Theodore  Woolsey  Heermance 

Died  September  29,  1905 

Heermance  was  the  son  of  Edgar  Laing  and  Agnes  (Wool- 
sey) Heermance,  who  were  married  May  14,  1863,  and  had  two 
other  children:  Edgar  Laing  Heermance,  B.A.  Yale  1897,  M.A. 
1899,  B.D.  1901,  and  Laura  Woolsey  Heermance,  Bryn  Mawr 
^f-1893.  Edgar  Laing  Heermance,  senior,  son  of  Henry  and 
Catharine  Edgar  (Laing) 
Heermance,  was  born  April 
30,  1833,  in  New  York  City. 
He  graduated  at  Yale  in  1858, 
receiving  his  M.A.  in  1861. 
He  studied  theology  for  two 
years  at  Yale  Divinity  School 
and  for  one  year  in  Andover, 
being  ordained  pastor  of  the 
Reformed  Dutch  Church  in 
Castleton,  New  York,  Novem- 
ber 12,  1 86 1.  From  1869  to 
1874  he  resided  in  New- 
Haven,  Connecticut,  and  after 
that  date  in  White  Plains, 
New  York,  where  he  was 
pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  until  a  few  months 
before  his  death,  which 
occurred  April  29,  1888. 
Agnes  (Woolsey)  Heermance 
was  the  daughter  of  Theodore 

Dwight  Woolsey,  B.A.  Yale  1820,  President  of  Yale  College 
from  1846  to  1 87 1,  and  Martha  Elizabeth  (Salisbury)  Woolsey. 
Besides  his  grandfather,  father,  and  brother,  our  classmate  had 
the     following     Yale     relatives :     two     great-great-great-grand- 


THEODORE    W.    HEERMANCE 


244  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

fathers,  Benjamin  Woolsey,  1709,  and  Jonathan  Edwards,  1720; 
a  great-great-uncle,  Timothy  Dwight,  1769,  President  of  Yale 
College  from  1795  to  181 7;  an  uncle,  Professor  Theodore  Salis- 
bury Woolsey,  B.A.  1872,  and  four  cousins:  Theodore  Salisbury 
Woolsey,  B.A.  1901,  M.F.  1903,  Heathcote  Muirson  Woolsey, 
B.A.  1907,  John  Munro  Woolsey,  B.A.  1898,  LL.B.  Columbia 
1901,  and  Convers  Buckingham  Woolsey,  1901. 

Theodore  W.  Heermance  was  born  March  22,  1872,  in  New 
Haven,  Connecticut.  He  prepared  for  Yale  at  Alexander  Mili- 
tary Institute  in  White  Plains,  New  York.  He  received  a  high 
oration  Junior  and  a  philosophical  oration  Senior  appointment; 
a  second  Winthrop  prize;  a  DeForest  prize;  a  Townsend  pre- 
mium ;  and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  The  year  after 
graduation  he  spent  at  Yale  in  graduate  study,  and  the  two 
years  following  in  Greece  as  the  holder  of  the  Soldiers'  Memorial 
Fellowship.  In  1896  he  returned  to  Yale  and  served  three 
years  as  tutor  in  Greek,  meantime  receiving  the  degree  of 
Ph.D.  in  1898  at  Yale.  In  1899  he  was  appointed  instructor  in 
classical  archaeology  for  three  years,  but  the  year  1900- 1901  he 
was  abroad  on  leave  of  absence,  most  of  the  time  engaged  in 
research  in  Germany  and  Italy.  In  1902  he  was  chosen  for  a 
year  as  secretary  of  the  American  School  of  Classical  Studies 
at  Athens,  and  the  following  year  he  succeeded  Professor  Rufus 
B.  Richardson  (Yale  1869)  as  director  of  that  institution. 

To  gain  skill  and  facility  in  conducting  archaeological  exca^ 
vation  and  exploration,  he  made  himself  a  competent  surveyor 
and  draughtsman.  He  also  studied  architecture  and  gathered 
extensive  material  on  this  subject,  although  not  in  shape  for 
printing  except  the  historical  introduction  and  descriptions  to 
accompany  the  publication  of  the  drawings  of  the  Erectheum 
made  by  the  architect  of  the  school.  He  was  chosen  a  member 
of  the  Archaeological  Society  of  Athens  in  1904,  and  in  1905  of 
the  Imperial  Archaeological  Institute  of  Berlin  and  the  Austrian 
Archaeological  Institute. 

He  died  of  typhoid  fever  at  Athens,  Greece,  September  29, 
1905.     Burial  was  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 

He  was  unmarried. 

In  1907,  as  a  permanent  tribute  to  his  memory,  a  fund  was 
started,  the  interest  of  which  is  to  be  used  for  the  purchase  of 
books  on  ancient  architecture  for  the  library  of  the  School  at 
Athens ;  each  book  purchased  with  the  income  of  this  fund  is  to 
bear  a  special  book-plate. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  245 

Under  his  will  the  Department  of  Archaeology  of  the  Uni- 
versity came  into  possession  of  the  valuable  collection  of  photo- 
graphs and  pottery  made  by  Dr.  Heermance  during  his  work  in 
Greece  as  Director  of  the  American  School  at  Athens.  The 
collection  includes  about  a  thousand  photographs  of  specimens 
of  Greek  and  Roman  sculpture,  among  which  are  many  pictures 
of  the  recent  excavations  at  Olympia  and  Athens.  Among  the 
plasters  in  the  collection  is  one  of  the  head  of  a  horse  from  the 
east  pediment  of  the  Parthenon  and  a  large  collection  of  frag- 
ments of  Greek  pottery.  Of  particular  value  is  a  collection  of 
eighty  squeezes  of  Greek  inscriptions  taken  direct  from  the 
originals  by  Dr.  Heermance.  There  are  many  specimens  of 
marbles. 


Charles  Ralph  Hickox 

Major,   Judge   Advocate   Department,   American   Expeditionary   Forces 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Kirlin,  Woolsey  &  Hickox,  27  William  Street, 

New  York  City 

Residence,  557  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Hickox  is  a  son  of  Charles  Ralph  and  Helen  Berenice  (Church) 
Hickox,  who  had  in  all  seven  children,  three  of  whom  are  now 
living:  Ralph  Hickox,  B.A.  Yale  1886,  Helen  Church  Hickox, 
who  married  George  Coggill,  B.A.  Yale  1889,  and  our  classmate. 
Charles  R.  Hickox,  Sr.  (born  July  21,  1837,  in  Warren,  Ohio; 
died  in  1901  in  New  York  City),  lived  in  Ohio  until  the  Civil 
War,  served  throughout  the  war  as  a  Lieutenant  of  the  5th  U.  S. 
Infantry,  and  was  then  a  commission  merchant  in  New  York 
City  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was  on  the  New  York  Produce 
Exchange  as  a  partner  in  Hughes,  Hickox  &  Company  and  C.  R. 
Hickox  &  Company.  Mrs.  Hickox,  who  was  born  at  Fort 
Hamilton,  Long  Island,  and  died  in  1882  in  New  York  City, 
was  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  Mayflower  passengers.  Her 
husband's  people  came  also  from  England  and  settled  in  Wash- 
ington, Litchfield  County,  Connecticut. 

Charles  R.  Hickox  was  born  January  11,  1873,  in  Bay  Ridge, 
Long  Island,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School, 
Concord,  New  Hampshire.  He  received  a  colloquy  appointment 
Senior  year,  was  secretary  of  the  Republican  Club,  an  editor  of 
the  Yale  Daily  News,  and  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon. 


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He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Harvard  in  1896  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  Suffolk  County,  Massachusetts,  in  Septem- 
ber, and  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  January,  1897.  He  has  since 
practiced    in    New    York    City.     In    October,    1899,    ne   became 


CHARLES    R.    HICKOX 


associated  with  Convers  &  Kirlin  and  was  admitted  to  partner- 
ship in  the  firm  on  March  1,  1908.  The  present  name  of  the 
firm  is  Kirlin,  Woolsey  &  Hickox. 

In  May,  1898,  he  was  mustered  into  service  with  Troop  A, 
New  York  National  Guard,  and  in  July  was  commissioned  a 
2d  Lieutenant  of  the  2d  U.  S.  Infantry,  reaching  Cuba  soon  after 
the  surrender.  He  returned  to  Montauk  Point,  resigned  his 
commission,  and  was  then  for  several  weeks  a  patient  in  Roose- 
velt Hospital,  having  contracted  malarial  and  typhoid  fevers. 
He  retained  his  membership  in  Squadron  A,  New  York.  Cavalry, 
until  1903.  He  attended  the  second  Officers'  Training  Camp  at 
Plattsburg  in  the  fall  of  191 7  and  was  commissioned  a  Captain 
in  the  Aviation  Section  of  the  Signal  Reserve  Corps.  He  was 
then  ordered  to  Washington  and  detailed  temporarily  as  legal 
advisor  to  the  War  Credits  Board.  In  February  he  was  trans- 
ferred to   the  Air   Division   and   ordered   to   Kelly   Field,    San 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  247 

Antonio,  Texas.  On  August  17  he  was  promoted  to  Major  in 
the  Judge  Advocate  Department  and  sailed  for  France  on 
September  14.  He  was  stationed  at  Tours  handling  admiralty 
claims  for  some  time  and  then  transferred  to  Paris  as  chairman 
of  the  Board  of  Contracts  and  Adjustments. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Century,  University,  Yale,  Coffee 
House,  Adirondack  League,  St.  Andrew's  Golf,  and  the  West 
Side  Tennis  clubs,  the  Down  Town  Association,  the  New 
York  State  Bar  Association,  the  American  Bar  Association,  the 
Maritime  Law  Association,  and  the  International  Law  Associa- 
tion. From  1897  to  1902  he  was  a  member  of  the  Committee 
on  Admissions  to  the  Yale  Club,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
incorporators. 

He  was  married  August  27,  1918,  in  San  Antonio,  Texas,  to 
Lydia,  daughter  of   Samuel   Davenport   Bridge. 


William  McKimmie  Higgins 

Owner   of   the   Sydenham   Laboratories,   616   Madison   Avenue,   and   the 
Higgins  Laboratories,  40  East  Forty-first  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  375  Manhattan  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Higgins  is  the  son  of  William  and  Margaret  (Lockhart) 
Higgins,  who  were  married  November  12,  1853.  A  daughter, 
Christina  Miller  Higgins,  married  George  S.  McLaren,  B.A. 
Yale  1896.  William  Higgins,  born  June  14,  1828,  in  Glasgow, 
Scotland,  came  to  the  United  States  in  1879,  and  lived  in  Thomp- 
sonville,  Connecticut,  from  1879  to  I9°9>  when  he  moved  to 
West  Haven.  His  wife  was  born  May  24,  1829,  near  Glasgow, 
Scotland,  and  died  February  27,  1899,  in  Thompsonville,  Con- 
necticut. 

William  McK.  Higgins  was  born  March  8,  1869,  in  Glasgow, 
Scotland,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips-Andover.  He 
received  a  dissertation  Junior  and  a  dispute  Senior  appointment, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Andover  Club  and  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon. 

He  was  engaged  in  teaching  at  the  University  School,  Kansas 
City,  Missouri,  in  1893-94,  and  was  then  for  three  years  principal 
of  Butler  Academy,  Butler,  Missouri.  In  1898  he  returned  to 
Yale  to  take  the  medical  course  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
in  1902.     While  taking  this  course  he  worked  in  the  Cooperative 


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Store.  He  served  a  term  as  pathological  externe  at  the  Presby- 
terian Hospital,  New  York  City,  and  then  entered  on  general 
practice  in  New  York.  In  1906  he  was  appointed  assistant  chief 
physician    of    the    Good    Samaritan    Dispensary    and    in    1910 


WILLIAM    MC  K.    HIGGINS 


pathologist  to  the  Lincoln  Hospital,  New  York.  Deciding  to 
specialize  in  pathology,  in  1908  he  gave  up  general  practice  and 
has  since  conducted  two  private  laboratories, — the  Sydenham 
Laboratories  and  the  Higgins  Laboratories,  both  in  New  York 
City. 

In  politics  he  is  an  Independent  Republican.  He  belongs  to  the 
Yale  Club  and  to  various  medical  societies. 

He  was  married  June  27,  1906,  in  New  York  City,  to  Ella 
Louise,  daughter  of  William  James  and  Mary  (Sutton)  Ford. 
They  have  no  children. 

Higgins  writes :  "At  the  start  when  you  have  some  dough 
behind  you,  you  can  choose  your  place  to  root,  but  if  you  haven't, 
you  are  compelled  to  stay  where  you  are  put.  Conditions  put  me 
in  Manhattan.  It  has  been  said  that  the  intelligence  of  the 
United  States  has  been  concentrated  in  New  York  City  by  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  249 

flocking  to  it  from  all  parts  of  the  country  of  'what  is  best  and 
bravest  in  brains  and  character  of  every  State  in  the  Republic/ 
That  may  be  true  but,  with  every  opportunity  for  seeing  and 
doing,  Manhattan  is  a  poor  place  to  live  in.  For  the  last  fifteen 
years  I  have  been  pushing  the  daily  routine  across,  always  ready 
to  help  or  be  of  service  but  secretly  and  just  as  earnestly  trying 
to  increase  the  number  of  days  that  I  could  spend  elsewhere  than 
in  this  unfinished  town.  My  annual  fourteen  days'  vacation  has 
lengthened  out  considerably  and  I  have  advanced  as  far  as 
acquiring,  not  acres,  but  just  a  hundred  feet  or  so  of  land  near 
the  old  town  of  Mil  ford,  Connecticut,  the  same  town  the  boys 
used  to  convalesce  in,  back  in  the  nineties.  There's  the  usual 
green  grass  and  the  war-time  vegetable  garden  and  I  have  won 
blue  ribbons  at  the  local  shows  for  cabbage,  tomatoes,  and  other 
such  things,  but  my  hobby  is  the  rose.  As  yet  my  rose  garden 
is  in  the  kindergarten  class  and  my  knowledge  of  rose  growing 
on  the  same  lowly  plane  but  I'd  rather  grow  a  good  rose  than 
make  a  discovery  in  medicine.  My  work  depends  largely  upon 
the  effect  of  'bugs'  on  the  human  organism;  my  recreation  on 
inhibiting  the  effect  of  other  bugs  in  a  small  corner  of  the  world 
of  flowers." 

^Frederick  Asbury  Hill 

Died  August  31,  1907 

Hill  was  the  only  son  of  Hon.  Ebenezer  J.  Hill  and  Mary 
Ellen  (Mosman)  Hill,  who  were  married  June  15,  1868,  and  had 
also  three  daughters:  Clara  Mosman  Hill,  B.A.  Vassar  1895; 
Helena  Charlotte  Hill,  B.A.  Vassar  1896,  M.A.  1902  (Mrs. 
Walter  H.  Weed)  ;  and  Elsie  Mary  Hill,  B.A.  Vassar  1906. 
Ebenezer  J.  Hill  (born  August  4,  1845,  m  Redding,  Connecticut, 
died  September  27,  191 7,  in  Norwalk,  Connecticut)  left  the  Class 
of  1865  at  Yale  in  Sophomore  year  to  enter  the  army  but  in  1892 
was  given  an  honorary  degree  and  enrolled  as  a  graduate  of 
1865.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Moses  Hill,  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  the  Methodist  Church  in  New  England,  and  Charlotte  Ilsley 
(McLellan)  Hill;  on  both  his  father's  and  mother's  side  he  came 
of  the  earliest  colonial  stock.  Mr.  Hill  was  identified  with  promi- 
nent business  interests  in  Norwalk,  conducting  a  lumber  business 
for  twenty-five  years,  serving  as  president  of  the  Norwalk 
Street  Railway  Company,  the  Norwalk  Gas  Company,  and  the 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Norwalk  Mills  Company.  In  1894  he  was  elected  to  the  54th 
Congress  and,  except  for  the  term  from  191 3  to  191 5,  served 
continuously  until  his  death.  His  wife,  Mary  Ellen  Mosman, 
was  born  in  Amherst,  Massachusetts,  and  died  May  23,  1918,  in 

Norwalk,  Connecticut. 

Frederick  A.  Hill  was  born 
July  4,  1869,  in  Norwalk,  Con- 
necticut, and  was  prepared  at 
Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Massachusetts.  He 
joined  our  Class  in  Sopho- 
more year,  and  after  gradua- 
tion entered  the  Yale  School 
of  Law  from  which  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 

1895- 

He  was  admitted  to  the 
Connecticut  Bar  in  1895  and 
practiced  law  in  Norwalk  until 
the  outbreak  of  war  with 
Spain.  He  had  enlisted  in  the 
First  Division  of  the  Naval 
Battalion,  Connecticut  Na- 
tional Guard,  in  1893  and 
served  until  1895 ;  in  1897  he 
became  Captain  of  Company 
D,  4th  Infantry,  and  held  that  command  until  1898. 

On  May  9,  1898,  President  McKinley  appointed  him  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel  and  Judge  Advocate  of  the  U.  S.  Volunteer  Army; 
he  went  to  Porto  Rico  as  a  member  of  the  staff  of  General  Wilson 
and  was  senior  officer  in  Ponce,  in  charge  of  the  customs  and 
internal  revenue,  until  the  taking  of  San  Juan.  He  was  honorably 
discharged  June  24,  1899,  and  returned  to  Norwalk,  becoming 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Norwalk  Mills  Company  at 
Winnipauk. 

In  1899  he  was  appointed  Captain  and  Aide-de-Camp  on  the 
staff  of  General  Russell  Frost,  and  on  July  20,  1900,  was  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  Major  and  Judge  Advocate. 

He  died  at  Norwalk  August  31,   1907,   from  typhoid  fever, 
complicated  by  injuries  received  in  a  fall  from  his  horse. 
He  had  not  married. 


FREDERICK   A.    HILL 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


251 


James  Norman  Hill 

Railway  official,  20  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  555  Park  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Hill  is  the  son  of  James  Jerome  and  Mary  Theresa  (Mehegan) 
Hill,  and  has  three  sisters  and  a  brother,  Louis  Warren  Hill, 
1893  S.  His  father,  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  was  born  near 
Guelph,  Ontario,  September  16,  1838.  In  1865  he  became  agent 
of  the  Northwestern  Packet  Company;  in  1875  he  organized  the 
Northwestern  Fuel  Company;  from  1865  to  1875  he  was  local 
agent  of  the  St.  Paul  and  Pacific  Railroad,  which  he  bought  and 
reorganized  as  the  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis,  and  Manitoba  Rail- 
road Company  in  1879,  serving  as  its  general  manager  from  1879 
to  1881,  vice-president  1881  to  1883  and  president  1883  to  1891  ; 
and  from  September  11,  1899,  until  April,  1907,  when  his  son, 
Louis  Warren  Hill,  succeeded 
him,  he  was  president  of  the 
Great  Northern  Railroad.  In 
1910  an  honorary  LL.D.  de- 
gree was  conferred  upon  him 
by  Yale  University.  He  died 
May  29,  1916,  in  St.  Paul, 
Minnesota. 

J.  N.  Hill  was  born  Febru- 
ary 13,  1870,  in  St.  Paul, 
Minnesota,  and  was  prepared 
at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter, 
New  Hampshire.     In  college  4 

he   was   a   member   of   Delta      H 
Kappa  Epsilon  and  the  Uni- 
versity Club. 

After  graduation  he  began 
his  railroad  career  as  a  clerk 
in  the  office  of  the  Northern 
Pacific  Railroad,  and  in  1905 

became  vice-president  of  the  tames  n.  hill 

company,    in    which    capacity 

he  served  until  his  retirement  in  1913.  In  January,  1916,  he  was 
elected  a  director  of  the  Chase  National  Bank  in  New  York  City. 
He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Northern  Pacific,  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  and  Quincy,  the  Erie,  the  Colorado  and  Southern,  and 


25 2  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

the  St.  Paul  and  Northern  Pacific  railroads,  the  Pacific  Coast 
Company,  the  Northern  Securities  Company,  the  Northwestern 
Improvement  Company,  and  the  Texas  Company;  president  of 
the  Northern  Express  Company ;  vice-president  of  the  Minnesota 
and  International  Railroad ;  and  a  trustee  of  the  New  York  Trust 
Company  and  the  Washington  and  Columbia  Trust  Company. 

He  was  married  August  23,  19 12,  in  London,  England,  to  Mrs. 
Marguerite  Sawyer  Fahnestock,  daughter  of  Arthur  W.  Sawyer 
of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 


JOHN   P.    HOBBIE 


John  Payson  Hobbie 

Conducting  a  real  estate  business  under  the  name  of  Nichols  &  Hobbie, 
7  East  Forty-second  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  Ossining,  New  York 

Hobbie's  parents  were  married  in  1865  and  had  the  one  son 
and  a  daughter,  Frances  L.  Hobbie,  Wells  College  ex-'S6.  The 
father,  John  Hobbie  (born  December  30,  181 5,  in  Geneva,  New 
York;  died  in  1897  in  Cazenovia,  New  York),  lived  in  Cazenovia 
from  the  time  he  was  ten  years  old.     He  was  a  merchant.     The 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  253 

mother,  Louise  (Payson)  Hobbie,  was  born  in  August,  1836.  in 
Lyme,  Connecticut,  and  died  in  1897  in  Cazenovia.  She  was 
descended  from  English  people  who  settled  in  Massachusetts 
about  1642.     Mr.  Hobbie  was  also  of  English  descent. 

John  P.  Hobbie  was  born  January  5,  1872,  in  Cazenovia,  New 
York,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Reid  School,  Hartford,  and  at 
Lakeville,  Connecticut. 

During  1893-94  and  also  in  1895  he  was  with  the  Morning 
Courier,  Syracuse,  New  York,  in  the  intervening  time  having 
served  as  secretary  of  the  Good  Government  Club  in  New  York 
City  during  the  municipal  election  campaign  in  the  fall  of  1894. 
In  1896-97  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  C.  J.  Hildebrandt  & 
Company,  advertising  agents,  Syracuse,  and  from  October,  1897, 
to  January  1,  1900,  carried  on  this  business  in  his  own  name.  On 
the  latter  date  he  sold  out  and  on  February  1  became  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Abram  Hyatt  &  Company,  real  estate,  New  York 
City,  and  in  July,  1905,  succeeded  to  this  business.  In  1910  he 
combined  with  the  real  estate  business  of  H.  W.  Nichols  under 
the  name  of  Nichols  &  Hobbie,  and  since  his  partner's  death  in 
May,  1916,  has  continued  the  business  under  the  same  name. 
He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Bank  for  Savings  in  Ossining. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Ossining,  a  member  of  the  Yale  Club  of 
New  York,  and  of  the  Sleepy  Hollow  Country  Club,  Scarboro, 
New  York. 

He  was  married  July  20,  1898,  in  Sing  Sing,  New  York,  to  Alice 
Louise,  daughter  of  Abram  Hyatt,  real  estate  dealer,  and  Mary 
(Stoutenburgh)    Hyatt.     They  have  no  children. 


Benjamin  Hodge 

Fifth  and  Marion   Streets,  Redlands,  California,  or  P.  O.  Box  383, 

Redlands 

Hodge  is  the  only  child  of  Lyman  Davis  and  Mary  Norton 
(Granger)  Hodge,  who  were  married  February  18,  1869. 
Lyman  D.  Hodge,  B.A.  Yale  1857,  was  born  November  1,  1835, 
in  Black  Rock,  near  Buffalo,  New  York,  and  died  May  28,  1899, 
in  Mount  Vernon,  Washington.  He  was  the  son  of  Benjamin 
and  Eliza  (Patton)  Hodge,  and  traced  his  ancestry  to  John 
Hodge,  who  lived  in  Windsor,  Connecticut,  in  the  seventeenth 


254  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

century.  Mr.  Hodge  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Buffalo,  but  later,  in  St.  Paul,  engaged  in  the  wholesale  grocery 
business  and  was  also  interested  in  banking  and  real  estate.  His 
wife,  the  daughter  of  Warren  Granger,  was  born  November  22, 


BENJAMIN    HODGE 

1840,  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  and  died  January  23,  1906,  in 
Platteville,  Wisconsin.  The  first  record  of  her  ancestors  in  this 
country  is  found  in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  in  1640. 

Benjamin  Hodge  was  born  March  5,  1871,  in  St.  Paul,  Minne- 
sota, and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  St.  Paul  High  School. 
He  received  a  first  colloquy  Junior  and  a  second  dispute  Senior 
appointment  and  two-year  honors  in  natural  and  physical  science. 
He  rowed  in  the  single  skull  races,  Spring  Regattas,  1891  and 
1892,  was  captain  of  the  Dunham  Boat  Club,  and  a  member  of 
Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  Wolf's  Head. 

From  1893  to  1895  he  studied  mining  engineering  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology  and  until  1909  he  followed  this 
profession.  In  1896-97  he  was  in  St.  Paul ;  1898-1904,  assistant 
engineer  of  the  London  &  British  Columbia  Gold  Fields  Com- 
pany, Nelson,  B.  C,  and  1904-09,  engaged  in  mining  engineer- 
ing in  Platteville,  Wisconsin,  and  a  member  of  the  Jarrett  & 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  255 

Hodge  Company,  dealers  in  mining  supplies  at  Platteville.  In 
1909  he  moved  to  Redlands,  California,  on  account  of  Mrs. 
Hodge's  health,  and  is  growing  oranges. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat. 

He  was  married  January  18,  1899,  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  to 
Ruth  Stickney,  B.A.  Vassar  1894,  daughter  of  Alpheus  Bede 
Stickney,  formerly  president  of  the  Chicago  &  Great  Western 
Railway,  and  Kate  (Hall)  Stickney.  They  have  three  children: 
May  Norton,  born  December  22,  1901 ;  Benjamin,  born  February 
17,  1904,  and  Ruth  Ursula,  born  December  13,  1907. 

Hodge  writes :  "Raising  oranges  in  California  is  not  very 
exciting  but  at  the  same  time  it  is  very  interesting.  I  am 
strong  on  hobbies.  Before  the  war  my  boy  and  I  were 
engaged  in  wireless  work  and  since  then  in  other  electrical 
work.  I  have  also  been  engaged  in  developing  a  new  type 
of  gas  engine  with  some  success.  Recently  I  have  taken 
up  gauze  machinery  for  Red  Cross  work,  and  have  made 
a  gauze  cutting  machine  that  cuts  gauze  into  sixteen  inch 
squares  at  the  rate  of  150  yards  per  hour.  I  have  just 
enlisted  Homer  Joy  to  assist  in  running  the  machine  and  he  will 
be  a  valuable  acquisition.  If  any  of  you  chaps  want  the  plans 
and  specifications  I  will  be  glad  to  forward  them,  gratis,  and 
any  good  mechanic  who  has  access  to  a  machine  shop  can  build 
it  for  less  than  $100.00.  I  might  also  add  that  the  biggest 
expense  is  two  electric  motors.  What  I  want  to  see  is  gauze  and 
more  gauze  sent  out  by  the  Red  Cross. 

"And  as  for  other  hobbies,  well  I  have  lots  of  them; — one  of 
them  is  to  see  all  you  fellows  again  and  some  day  I  am  going 
to  do  it." 


Richard  Thayer  Holbrook 

Director  of   foyer,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,   Morhange,  France 
Address,  care  D.  G.  Holbrook,  Drawer  51,  Hartford,   Connecticut 

Holbrook  is  a  son  of  Timothy  Dwight  and  Kalista  White 
(Thayer)  Holbrook,  who  were  married  February  10,  1863,  and 
had  one  other  son:  Dwight  Gerard  Holbrook.  The  first  Hol- 
brook ancestor  in  America  was  John  Holbrook  of  Derby,  Eng- 
land, who  settled  at  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island,  before  1663.  His 
son,  Abel,  was  the  first  white  child  born  at  Oyster  Bay  (1663). 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


D wight  Holbrook  (born  April  10,  181 7,  in  Derby,  Connecticut; 
died  in  1891  in  Evanston,  Illinois)  was  the  son  of  Josiah  Hol- 
brook, B.A.  Yale  1810,  an  inventor  and  manufacturer  of  educa- 
tional and  scientific  apparatus.     His  early  business  life  was  spent 


RICHARD   T.    HOLBROOK 


in  Berea,  Ohio ;  he  later  settled  in  Wethersfield  and  Windsor 
Locks,  Connecticut.  Mrs.  Holbrook's  American  ancestry  (Eng- 
lish, by  origin)  began  in  the  earliest  days  of  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony.  The  founder  of  the  New  England  Thayers  was 
Richard  Thayer,  recorded  as  a  freeman  in  Braintree,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1640.  Born  October  11,  1840,  in  Williamsburg, 
Massachusetts,  she  attended  Mount  Holyoke  Seminary  (now 
Mount  Holyoke  College)  in  the  Class  of  i860,  and  from  1877  to 
1893  conducted  a  private  school  at  Yonkers,  New  York.  She 
has  been  a  great  traveler,  has  given  many  talks  on  various  sub- 
jects, and  in  19 14  began  to  work  for  sufferers  in  France. 

Richard  T.  Holbrook  was  born  December  13,  1870,  in  Windsor 
Locks,  Connecticut,  and  received  his  final  preparatory  training  at 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 

At  Yale  (so  he  states),  trigonometry  and  like  subjects  pre- 
vented him  from  rising  above  a  dissertation  appointment,  but  he 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  257 

managed  to  win  two-year  honors  in  French  and  a  prize  for 
Latin  composition.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Andover  Club, 
Chi  Delta  Theta,  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 

He  writes :  "From  1893  to  1896  I  studied  in  Europe,  chiefly 
in  Paris.  In  1896  I  became  a  tutor  (in  French  and  Italian)  at 
Yale.  In  1901  I  went  from  Yale  to  Columbia;  from  Columbia 
I  went  to  Bryn  Mawr  College  and  taught  there  (Old  French  and 
Italian),  from  1906  to  1916.  In  my  contract  with  Bryn  Mawr 
College  (as  in  all  other  like  contracts  therewith)  was  a  clause  to 
this  effect:  'And  the  said  Richard  Thayer  Holbrook  furthermore 
agrees  that  he  will  not  give  more  than  one  lecture  a  year  out- 
side of  Bryn  Mawr  College  without  the  express  permission  of 
the  Board  of  Directors,  to  be  obtained  through  the  President.'  " 

Shortly  after  the  third  refusal  of  the  authorities  above-named 
to  allow  Holbrook  to  give  summer  courses  at  the  University  of 
Chicago,  he  terminated  his  connection  with  Bryn  Mawr  College, 
although,  by  reason  of  the  stand  taken  by  him,  radical  changes 
affecting  the  appointment,  promotion,  and  privileges  of  the 
faculty,  were  enacted.  In  191 7  he  became  Romance  language 
editor  for  D.  C.  Heath  &  Company,  a  post  which  he  resigned  in 
June,  1918,  in  order  to  serve  in  France. 

He  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  at  Columbia  in  1902.  Pre- 
vious to  voting  for  President  Wilson  he  had  always  voted  for 
Republican  candidates  for  the  presidency. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Yale  Club  of  New  York  City,  the 
Merion  Cricket  Club,  Haverford,  Pennsylvania,  the  Societe  des 
anciens  textes  fran^ais,  Paris,  the  Modern  Language  Association 
of  America,  etc. 

He  has  not  married. 

Concerning  his  writings  he  says :  "My  first  book,  published  by 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons  in  1900,  entitled  'Boys  and  Men:  a 
Story  of  Life  at  Yale,'  described  (of  course  as  I  then  under- 
stood them)  certain  aspects  of  undergraduate  life.  Long  ago  I 
began  to  realize  how  far  short  I  had  fallen  of  what  might  have 
been  written  on  such  a  theme,  and  especially  I  deplore  various 
melodramatic  or  unduly  romantic  elements  that  pervade  and  mar 
the  said  work.     So  much  for  the  father  confessor." 

Other  books  of  mine  are:  "Dante  and  the  Animal  Kingdom,"  Mac- 
millan,  1902;  "The  Farce  of  Master  Pierre  Patelin"  (translated  from  the 
Old  French),  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Company,  1905 — my  first  version  of 
this  old  farce;  "A  Poet  and  his  Music:  an  account  of  John  Milton's 
relations   to   Music  and  to   Musicians,"    composed   in   1908-1909  but   for 


258  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

various  reasons  not  published;  "Portraits  of  Dante,"  Medici  Society 
(London)  and  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Company,  191 1 ;  An  annotated  edition 
of  "Gobseck"  and  "Jesus-Christ  en  Flandre,"  by  Honore  de  Balzac, 
Oxford  University  Press,  1912;  "The  Farce  of  Master  Pierre  Patelin" 
(Popular  Edition),  Walter  H.  Baker  &  Co.,  1913.  In  this  later  version, 
"Patelin"  has  been  performed  for  more  than  20,000  persons  by  various 
amateur  companies,  of  which  the  latest  known  to  me  (1918)  is  "The 
Patelin  Players,"  founded  by  Mr.  Oliver  W.  Larkin  (Harvard  1918)  ; 
"Living  French :  a  New  Course  in  Reading,  Writing,  and  Speaking  the 
French  Language,"  Ginn  &  Company,  1917 ;  "Etude  sur  Pathelin :  Essai 
de  bibliographie  et  d'interpretation,"    Champion,  Paris,  1918. 

"I  shall  easily  be  forgiven  for  not  desiring  to  lengthen  this 
list  with  a  catalogue  of  numerous  contributions  to  learned 
periodicals,  popular  magazines,  and  the  like.  My  chief  interest 
at  the  present  time  (1918)  and  my  keenest  large  desire,  is  to 
see  the  Central  Powers  defeated  and  led,  however  this  may  be 
accomplished,  to  follow  more  civilized  practices  in  their  rela- 
tions with  the  rest  of  the  world — a  change  which  seems  to 
require  greater  individual  freedom  and  a  more  humane  frame  of 
mind  within  their  own  boundaries.  My  most  personal  aim  is  to 
return  to  my  teaching  and  my  philological  or  other  historical 
researches  before  my  brain  and  the  rest  of  me  have  grown  too 
feeble  for  profitable  studies  and  for  the  enjoyment  of  lawn  tennis, 
squash,  and  like  blessings." 


John  LeRoy  Hurlbert 

Lawyer,  18  East  Second  Street,  Dunkirk,  New  York 
Residence,  Dunkirk,  New  York 

Hurlbert  is  the  only  son  of  Simeon  LeRoy  and  Mary  J. 
(Johnson)  Hurlbert,  who  were  married  May  10,  1865,  and  had 
two  other  children,  daughters,  who  were  both  non-graduate  mem- 
bers of  the  Class  of  1889  at  Mount  Holyoke  College:  Florence 
Amy  Hurlbert  and  Sylvia  White  Hurlbert  (married  George  J. 
McAndrew,  B.A.  Yale  1884).  The  father  (born  November  14, 
1837,  in  Forestville,  New  York;  died  there  March  31,  1913) 
attended  the  Forestville  Free  Academy,  was  a  farmer,  cattle 
buyer  and  dealer,  railroad  man,  and  justice  of  the  peace,  Town 
of  Hanover.  The  mother  (born  October  21,  1842,  in  Forest- 
ville; died  there  June  1,  1918)  attended  the  Forestville  Free 
Academy  and  Alfred  University.  On  both  sides  the  family  is  of 
Colonial  ancestry  descended  from  English  lines. 


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259 


John  L.  Hurlbert  was  born  February  28,  1871,  in  Forestville, 
New  York,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Free  Academy  in  his  native 
town.  He  received  a  first  dispute  Junior  and  an  oration  Senior 
appointment  and  two-year  honors  in  history. 


JOHN    L.    HURLBERT 


From  1893  t0  I^9^  ne  taught  in  the  Dunkirk  (New  York) 
High  School,  in  the  last  year  acting  in  the  capacity  of  principal. 
He  had  studied  law  during  these  years  and  in  October,  1897,  was 
admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar.  He  has  since  practiced  in  Dun- 
kirk. He  is  a  director  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank,  vice- 
president  of  the  Chautauqua  Abstract  Company,  and  a  director 
of  the  Lake  Shore  Savings  &  Loan  Association,  and  others. 

In  November,  191 5,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Education,  Dunkirk,  for  a  term  which  expires  January  1,  1920. 
He  is  chairman  of  Local  Board  No.  1,  Chautauqua  County,  New 
York,  under  the  Selective  Service  Law. 

He  is  a  member  of  Dunkirk  Lodge  767,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  Jamestown  Lodge  of  Perfection  and  Buffalo  Consistory, 
thirty-second  degree,  Scottish  Rite,  and  Ismailia  Temple,  Buffalo, 
A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S. 


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He  was  married  February  14,  1906,  in  Dunkirk,  to  Helen 
Maude  Hequembourg,  B.A.  Vassar  1898,  daughter  of  Charles 
E.  Hequembourg,  civil  engineer  and  oil  promoter,  and  Harriet 
E.  (Thurber)  Hequembourg.  They  have  two  children,  both 
born  in  Dunkirk:  Jessie  Florence,  born  September  25,  1908,  and 
LeRoy  Hequembourg,  born  April  6,  1913. 

Hurlbert  writes :  "Mostly  talk  about  troubles  in  the  exemption, 
or  local  draft  board.  If  the  present  war  continues  for  a  long 
time,  our  professional  work  will  be  nothing.  No  'rubber  stamp 
position'  in  an  exemption  board, — make  more  enemies  than  a 
dozen  political  campaigns  could  produce. 

"Children  seem  to  be  normal,  as  yet,  and  both  say  they  are  going 
to  the  colleges  their  parents  attended.  Hope  to  attend  all  of  our 
Class  reunions  as  long  as  we  live,  have  found  them  very  inspir- 
ing and  one  of  things  that  makes  life  worth  while.  Find 
much  pleasure  in  keeping  up  college  friendships  and  believe  that 
one  of  the  most  valuable  features  of  a  college  course." 


Shubael  Cady  Hutchins 

Traveling  manager  for  the  J.  T.  Finnegan  Company,  manufacturing 
and  retail  jewelers 

Residences,  Danielson,  Connecticut,  and  Arborway  Court, 
Jamaica   Plain,   Massachusetts 

Hutchins  is  the  only  son  of  Shubael  and  Josephine  Amelia 
(Gladding)  Hutchins,  who  were  married  in  1862  and  had  one 
other  child,  a  daughter:  Maria  (Hutchins)  Belden.  Shubael 
Hutchins,  descendant  of  Shubael  Hutchins  who  settled  in  Plain- 
field,  Connecticut,  about  1740,  was  of  English  ancestry.  He  was 
born  in  April,  1830,  in  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  and  died  in  Prov- 
idence, Rhode  Island,  in  April,  1900.  As  a  young  man  he  was  a 
cotton  broker  in  Providence  but  soon  after  his  marriage  returned 
to  the  old  homestead  in  Danielson.  Mrs.  Hutchins,  also  of 
English  ancestry,  was  born  in  January,  1840,  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  and  died  in  that  city  in  May,  1907. 

S.  Cady  Hutchins  was  born  September  17,  1871,  in  Danielson, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Andover.  He  received  a  second 
colloquy  appointment  and  was  a  member  of  the  Andover  and 
University  clubs. 


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261 


From  1893  to  1896  he  was  a  dealer  in  electrical  supplies  in 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  in  New  York  City.  Then  he 
became  associated  with  the 
American  Oil  Company  in 
Providence  and  remained  with 
them  until  1903  when,  owing 
to  ill  health,  he  gave  up  busi- 
ness and  resided  in  Danielson 
for  six  years.  From  1909  to 
191 2  he  was  agent  for  the 
Franklin  automobile  in  Hart- 
ford, and  since  191 5  he  has 
worked  for  the  J.  T.  Finne- 
gan  Company,  manufacturing 
and  retail  jewelers,  with 
whom  he  now  has  the  position 
of  traveling  manager. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republi- 
can. He  belongs  to  the  Con- 
gregational Church. 

He  was  married  October 
30,  1907,  in  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, to  Helen  Raphael, 
daughter    of    Michael    Burke 

Finnegan,  real  estate  dealer,  and  Ellen  (Conroy)  Finnegan. 
They  have  had  two  children:  John  Cady,  born  and  died  April 
15,  1909,  and  Helen  Gladding,  born  January  21,  191 1. 

Hutchins  writes :  "Doubtless  the  majority  of  '93  like  myself 
find  recreation  in  and  with  their  families  and  special  interests  in 
their  interests. 

"Although  my  business  at  present  requires  me  to  live  the 
greater  part  of  the  year  in  Boston  my  family  and  I  are  looking 
forward  with  the  keenest  pleasure  to  an  all  year  around  life  at 
our  country  home.  Our  little  daughter,  now  seven  years  old, 
seems  to  have  inherited  our  love  for  the  old  homestead. 

"As  I  look  back  on  the  past  twenty-five  years  they  have  been 
very  happy  years  crowned  by  a  most  devoted  wife  and  daughter 
representing  as  they  do  all  the  best  in  life  to  me.  My  most  sin- 
cere desire  is  that  I  may  so  live  the  remainder  of  my  life  as  to  be 
worthy  of  their  love  and  respect  and  the  respect  and  confidence 
of  all  with  whom  I  may  come  in  contact." 


S.    CADY    HUTCHINS 


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*Sherwood  Bissell  Ives 

Died' February  16,  1907 

Sherwood  B.  Ives  was  the  son  of  Brayton  and  Ellen  A. 
(Bissell)  Ives,  who  were  married  February  6,  1867,  and  had 
three  other  children:  Winifred  Ives,  Eunice  (Ives)  Maynard, 
and  Frances  Havens  Ives.     Brayton  Ives  was  born  August  23, 

1840,  in  Farmington,  Connect- 
icut, the  son  of  William  A. 
and  Julia  (Root)  Ives.  An 
ancestor  was  William  Ives, 
who  settled  in  Massachusetts 
in  the  seventeenth  century, 
and  a  little  later  became  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  New 
Haven  Colony;  he  was  also 
descended  from  Eli  Ives,  B.A. 
1799,  one  of  the  originators 
and  first  professors  of  the 
Medical  Department  at  Yale. 
After  graduating  at  Yale  in 
1 861,  Brayton  Ives  served 
throughout  the  Civil  War,  be- 
ing brevetted  Brigadier  Gen- 
eral on  March  13,  1865. 
After  1866  he  engaged  in 
business  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  held  many  positions 
of  prominence  and  responsi- 
bility in  the  financial  world.  He  died  at  his  country  home  in 
Ossining,  New  York,  October  22,  1914.  In  February,  1916,  by 
settlement  of  his  estate,  the  Brayton  Ives  Fund  amounting  to 
$321,998.96  was  established  at  Yale.  Mrs.  Ives  was  Ellen  A. 
Bissell  of  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  before  her  marriage.  Walter 
Tracy  Ives,  1890  S.,  is  a  cousin  of  our  classmate. 

Ives  was  born  December  30,  1870,  in  New  York  City,  and  pre- 
pared for  Yale  at  the  Groton  School,  Groton,  Massachusetts. 
He  received  a  second  colloquy  Junior  appointment,  was  captain 
of  the  University  Crew  as  a  Senior,  served  on  the  Junior  Prom- 
enade Committee,  and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club, 
Psi  Upsilon,  and   Skull  and  Bones. 


SHERWOOD    B.    IVES 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  263 

In  1896  he  received  his  M.D.  degree  at  Columbia  University, 
and  after  two  years  of  service  as  an  interne  in  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital,  he  began  practice  in  New  York  City.  At  the  same 
time  he  was  on  the  teaching  staff  of  Cornell  Medical  School,  and 
the  attending  staff  of  Lincoln  Hospital.  After  spending  a  few 
months  as  assistant  to  Dr.  Trudeau  at  his  Saranac  Lake  Sani- 
tarium because  of  ill  health,  in  1900  he  went  to  New  Mexico. 
On  February  16,  1907,  at  Datil,  New  Mexico,  he  died  of  perito- 
nitis due  to  a  wound  inflicted  by  the  accidental  discharge  of  a 
revolver. 

He  was  unmarried. 


Harry  Benjamin  Jepson 

Director,    Yale    Bureau,    American   University   Union    in    Europe, 
8  Rue  de  Richelieu,  Paris,  France 

Professor  of  applied  music  and  University  Organist,  Yale  University 

Residence,  295   Crown   Street,  New  Haven,   Connecticut 

Jepson  is  a  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  Louise  (Wiswell) 
Jepson,  who  were  married  September  9,  1858,  and  had  three 
other  children :  Arthur  Wiswell  Jepson,  Ph.B.  Yale  1889,  Clara 
Louise  Jepson,  Smith  ex-cj&  (married  Clifford  W.  Beers,  Ph.B. 
Yale  1897),  and  Edward  Lincoln  Jepson  (died  August  2,  1862). 
Benjamin  Jepson  (born  May  22,  1832,  in  Sheffield,  England; 
died  June  7,  1914,  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut)  came  to  New 
Haven  in  1838  and,  except  for  two  years  in  Kansas  as  Captain  of 
his  Company  during  the  Kansas  Rebellion,  and  four  years  during 
which  he  served  as  a  Captain  in  the  Civil  War,  spent  the  rest  of 
his  life  in  that  city.  He  was  supervisor  of  music  in  the  public 
schools  of  New  Haven  for  fifty  years  ending  in  June,  191 3,  and 
in  recognition  of  his  important  work  in  this  line  was  given  an 
honorary  M.A.  by  Yale  in  191 2.  He  published  a  series  of  books 
on  musical  subjects  and  was  president  of  the  National  Associa- 
tion of  Music  Teachers.  His  wife,  born  August  3,  1839,  m 
Bridgeport,  and  died  February  13,  1910,  in  New  Haven,  was  a 
descendant  of  John  Eddy,  who  came  from  Cranbrook,  England,  in 
1630,  and  settled  in  Watertown,  near  Boston. 

Harry  B.  Jepson  was  born  August  16,  1870,  in  New  Haven  and 
was  prepared  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School.     He  sang  in  the 


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Glee  Club  and  was  a  member  of  Zeta  Psi.     He  is  a  graduate 
member  of  the  Elihu  Club. 

He  has  been  connected  with  Yale  since  graduation  as  organist, 
student,  and  teacher.     He  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 


HARRY   B.   JEPSON 


Music  in  1896  and  was  then  appointed  instructor  in  organ  playing 
and  harmony,  having  served  as  organist  in  the  Chapel  since  1894. 
In  1899  he  was  promoted  to  assistant  professor  and  in  1907 
appointed  professor  of  applied  music.  In  that  year  he  received 
the  honorary  degree  of  M.A.  ex-officio.  In  1903  he  was  appointed 
curator  and  official  organist  of  the  Newberry  Organ  in  Woolsey 
Hall  and  in  191 5-16  was  in  charge  of  the  work  of  rebuilding  and 
enlarging  this  organ  to  163  stops.  He  has  studied  abroad  sev- 
eral years. 

He  edited  "University  Hymns"  for  male  voices,  A.  S.  Barnes 
&  Company,  has  contributed  to  current  magazines  on  musical 
subjects,  and  has  composed  a  large  number  of  compositions  for 
the  organ.  The  New  Haven  public  pays  tribute  to  his  skill  as  an 
organist  on  Sunday  afternoons  during  the  winter,  when  Woolsey 
Hall,  which  seats  about  three  thousand  people,  is  filled  for  his 
recitals. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  265 

As  to  politics  he  says :  "Born  Republican,  voted  for  Wilson." 
He  is  a  member  of  Trinity  Episcopal  Church,  and  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Neighborhood  House  Music  School. 

In  November,  1918,  he  was  given  a  leave  of  absence  from 
the  University  to  serve  as  director  of  the  Yale  Bureau  of  the 
American  University  Union  in  Europe  in  Paris. 

He  belongs  to  the  Graduates  Club  and  to  the  Connecticut 
Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 

He  was  married  August  I,  1895,  in  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  to 
Mabel  Preston  Wyatt,  B.A.  Smith  1893,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Albert  Harmon  Wyatt  and  Martha  Washington  (Preston)  Wyatt. 
They  have  no  children. 

Jepson  writes  :  "Having  been  granted  leave  of  absence  for  my 
sabbatical  year  I  spent  from  February  to  September,  19 14,  in 
Europe.     The  war  drove  me  home. 

"I  played  at  the  Panama-Pacific  Exposition  in  191 5.  Have 
just  published  four  new  organ  pieces  through  G.  Schirmer, 
New  York. 

"For  the  rest  I  give  weekly  organ  recitals  in  Woolsey  Hall 
from  October  until  Easter  with  an  occasional  recital  away  from 
New  Haven,  though  I  have  given  up  touring  the  country.  I 
spend  my  days  more  or  less  happily  in  teaching  here  in  the  Music 
School.  I  give  some  time  to  composition  though  that  has  to  be 
done  largely  in  the  summer  months.  My  aim  in  life  is  to  become 
a  musician  and  it  takes  most  of  my  time  every  day  and  occupies 
most  of  my  thoughts,  though  I  do  give  some  attention  to  my  cat- 
boat  on  occasions  when  my  poor  fat  head  refuses  to  function. " 


Jesse  Breland  Johnson 

Professor  of  mathematics,  Baylor  University,  Waco,  Texas 
Residence,  1724  South  Seventh  Street,  Waco,  Texas 

Johnson  is  one  of  ten  children  of  Jacob  Elijah  and  Louvenia 
(Miller)  Johnson,  who  were  married  in  1856.  The  father 
(born  in  1835  in  Clayton,  Alabama;  died  January  7,  1907,  in 
Cookville,  Texas)  was  a  farmer  and  merchant  who  removed  to 
Texas  in  1868.  Before  i860  the  family  were  large  slave  and 
land    owners.      The    family    originally    settled    in    Jamestown, 


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Virginia,  then  moved  to  Western  North  Carolina  and  then  to 
Alabama.  Mrs.  Johnson  was  born  in  1840,  in  Clayton;  her 
parents  were  of  Irish  descent.  Two  of  our  classmate's  brothers 
attended  college, — Elmore  Johnson  received  the  degree  of  B.S. 
at  Baylor  University  in  1905,  and  Foreign  M.  Johnson  that  of 
M.D.  from  the  University  of  Chattanooga. 


JESSE    B.    JOHNSON 


Jesse  B.  Johnson  was  born  November  25,  1866,  in  Clayton, 
Alabama,  and  was  graduated  at  Baylor  University  with  the 
degree  of  B.A.  in  1891,  before  entering  Yale.  In  Senior  year 
he  received  honors  in  mathematics. 

He  secured  his  four  years  at  Yale  by  pursuing  graduate  work 
in  mathematics  from  1893  to  1895,  when  he  received  the  degree 
of  Ph.D.  He  taught  languages  at  Henry  College,  Campbell, 
Texas,  in  1895-96;  studied  at  the  University  of  Chicago,  1896-97, 
and  was  professor  of  mathematics  at  Burleson  College,  Green- 
ville, Texas,  in  1898-99.  He  has  been  professor  of  mathematics 
at  Baylor  University  since  1899. 

For  fifteen  years  he  has  served  as  a  deacon  in  the  Baptist 
Church. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  267 

He  was  married  December  20,  1895,  in  White wright,  Texas, 
to  Jessie  C,  daughter  of  John  Herring  Brown,  a  farmer, 
and  Elizabeth  (Davenport)  Brown.  They  have  had  ten  children, 
all  born  in  Texas:  Ruth,  born  September  24,  1896,  in  Campbell; 
Frederick  Edgerton,  born  November  17,  1898,  and  died  February 
23,  1899,  in  Greenville;  Florence  Elizabeth,  born  November  17, 
1898,  in  Greenville;  Margaret,  born  December  19,  1899;  Jessie 
Brown,  born  June  25,  1902 ;  Halbert  Herring,  born  January  6, 
1905 ;  Hubert  Newton,  born  January  6,  1905,  and  died  June  16, 
1905;  Catherine,  born  January  12,  1908;  Jesse  Breland,  Jr.. 
born  October  12,  1910,  and  Louise,  born  October  7,  1913,  the  last 
seven  being  born  in  Waco. 

Johnson  writes :  "My  first  business  concern  is  my  work  as 
teacher.  My  business  hobby  is  farming.  A  large  amount  of  my 
recreation  is  spent  in  managing  my  farm.  My  chief  interest  is  in 
rearing  and  educating  eight  children.  This  is  'some'  undertak- 
ing for  a  Texas  pedagogue.  A  large  amount  of  my  time  (which 
otherwise  might  be  called  leisure  time)  must  be  put  in  enter- 
taining these  eight.  However,  I  am  delighted  with  my  family 
and  the  work  I  am  doing. 

"These  children  are  the  greatest  pleasure  I  know.  They  are 
all  strong  physically  and  do  well  otherwise. 

"It  is  easy  to  see  why  I  should  not  do  some  things." 


*  Alfred  Henry  Jones 

Died  January  15,  1901 

Jones  Avas  the  son  of  the  Hon.  Charles  Jones  and  Emilie  T. 
(Yosti)  Jones,  and  had  a  brother,  Charles  Jones,  Jr.  His  father 
was  a  judge  and  State  Senator  of  Missouri,  at  one  time.  Alfred 
H.  Jones  was  born  April  17,  1868,  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he 
attended  Smith  Academy.  In  college  he  was  captain  of  the 
Freshman  Baseball  Team,  captain  of  the  Athletic  Team  as  a 
Senior,  and  a  member  of  the  Banjo  Club,  the  University  Club, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones.  In  October,  1890, 
he  won  the  100  yard  dash  at  the  meet. 

After  graduation  he  studied  in  the  Washington  University 
Law  School  in  St.  Louis  and  received  the  LL.B.  degree  in  1895. 
After  his  admission  to  the  bar,  he  practiced  in  St.  Louis  until 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


~>v 


ALFRED    H.    JONES 


June,  1900,  when  tuberculosis 
developed  after  an  attack  of 
pneumonia.  When  he  first 
went  to  New  Mexico  he 
seemed  to  improve,  but  an  at- 
tack of  grippe  caused  his 
death  in  Las  Vegas,  San 
Miguel  County,  January  15, 
1901.  Burial  was  in  St. 
Louis,  Missouri.  He  was  a 
Roman  Catholic. 

He  was  married  November 
17,  1896,  in  St.  Louis,  MisJ 
souri,  to  Sophie  Bates,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  John  Bates  John- 
son. They  had  a  daughter, 
Emilie  Theotiste,  born  No- 
vember 23,  1897,  and  a  son, 
Alfred  Henry,  Jr.,  born  Octo- 
ber 1,  1899. 


Charles  Davies  Jones 

Secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Little  Miami  Railroad  Company, 
Fosdick  Building,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Residence,  2828  Vernon  Place,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Jones  was  preceded  at  Yale  by  his  father  and  three  uncles  and 
followed  by  his  brother,  Edmund  Lawrence  Jones,  B.A.  1901 ; 
another  brother  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  Columbia  in 
1902.  There  are  also  two  sisters.  His  father,  Frank  Johnston 
Jones  (born  April  22,  1838,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio),  is  one  of 
thirteen  children  of  John  Davies  Jones  and  Elizabeth  (Johnston) 
Jones.  He  was  graduated  from  Yale  in  1859  and  received  the 
degrees  of  LL.B.  from  the  Cincinnati  Law  School  in  1866  and 
M.A.  from  Yale  in  1906;  his  brothers,  John  Johnston  Jones 
and  Walter  St.  John  Jones,  received  B.A.  degrees  at  Yale  in 
1852  and  1873  respectively,  and  two  brothers  went  to  Kenyon 
College,  one  to  West  Point  and  one  to  Annapolis.  Major  Jones 
served  throughout   the   Civil   War   and   then   practiced   law   in 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


269 


Cincinnati.  He  has  been  prominently  identified  with  business 
and  educational  interests  in  Cincinnati,  and  is  commander  of  the 
Ohio  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  On  the  paternal  side 
he  traces  his  descent  from  David  Jones,  who  came  from  Wales 
to  Eastern  Pennsylvania  about  1721 ;  his  maternal  ancestor  is 
Colonel  John  Johnston,  who  came  from  North  Ireland  in  1786 
and  settled  in  Philadelphia.  On  May  30,  1866,  he  married 
Frances  Dering,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  A.  (Wood) 
Fosdick,  and  sister  of  Wood  Fosdick,  Yale  ex-' 59.  Mrs.  Jones 
was  born  June  30,  1841,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  died  there 
April  6,  1917.  The  Fosdick  family  was  first  represented  in  this 
country  by  Stephen  Fosdick,  who  came  from  England  to  Charles- 
town,  Massachusetts,  in  1635. 

Charles  D.  Jones  was  born  April  3,  1871,  in  Cincinnati  and 
was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Franklin  School  in  that  city.  He 
received  colloquy  appointments,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Board 


CHARLES    D.    JONES 


of  Governors  of  the  University  Club,  of  the  Senior  Prom  Com- 
mittee, He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

He    writes:     "After    graduating    from    the    Cincinnati    Law 
School  in  1895,  I  was  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law 


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until  1908  when  I  became  connected  with  the  Little  Miami  Rail- 
road Company.  I  have  since  devoted  most  of  my  time  to  that 
company  and  to  the  Cincinnati  Gas  &  Electric  Company,  of 
which  I  am  president. 

"Since  graduation  I  have  made  three  trips  to  Europe;  the 
first  in  1893  with  Jack  Field;  the  second  in  1896,  and  the  third — 
my  wedding  trip — in  1904.  In  1899  with  Irv  Laughlin  I  spent 
five  months  in  Japan  and  China. 

"At  present  my  hobby  is  a  farm  of  forty  acres,  just  outside  of 
Cincinnati,  where  we  spend  six  months  of  the  year.  As  a  farmer 
I  probably  know  less  than  any  other  man  alive,  but  am  learning. 

"Am  deeply  interested  in  the  Cincinnati  Home  Guard  (Ser- 
geant-Major). We  have  a  regiment  of  3000,  fully  uniformed 
and  armed  and  have  been  drilling  twice  a  week  since  May,  191 7. 
Am  doing  some  work  for  the  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M.  C.  A." 

In  addition  to  the  business  interests  mentioned  above  Jones 
is  a  director  of  the  Central  Trust  Company,  Dayton  &  Michigan 
Railroad  Company,  Dixie  Terminal  Company,  and  a  trustee  of 
the  Widows'  and  Old  Men's  Homes. 

Normally  Republican  in  politics,  he  is  independent  in  municipal 
affairs.  He  is  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Episcopal  Church.  He  has 
held  different  offices  in  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Cincinnati 
and  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  New  York,  the 
Cincinnati  Country  Club,  The  Pillars  Club,  Queen  City  Club, 
Cincinnati  Golf  Club,  and  the  Loyal  Legion. 

He  was  married  January  19,  1904,  in  Detroit,  Michigan,  to 
Grace  Ella,  daughter  of  Ford  DeCamp  and  Mary  (Thompson) 
Hinchman.  They  have  three  children,  all  born  in  Cincinnati: 
Francis  Johnston,  2d,  born  February  3,  1906,  Ford  Hinchman, 
born  May  25,  1908,  and  Grace  Davies,  born  December  16,  1913. 


Riverda  Harding  Jordan 

Instructor,  Department  of  Rhetoric,  114  Engineering  Building, 
University  of  Minnesota,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota 

Residence,  74  Bedford   Street,   S.   E.,   Minneapolis,   Minnesota 

Jordan's  parents  were  married  June  20,  1872,  and  had  four 
other  children :  Helen  Jordan,  attended  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago; Ruth  (Jordan)  Weary,  attended  Randolph-Macon  Women's 
College;   Loring  Kenneth  Jordan,  Ph.B.  Yale  1909,  and  William 


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Amos  Jordan,  2d,  B.A.  Yale  191 5.  The  father,  William  Amos 
Jordan  (born  October  28,  1844,  in  Williamsport,  Pennsylvania; 
accidentally  drowned  May  30,  1892,  in  St.  Joseph,  Missouri),  was 
the   son  of   Jeremiah  and   Margaret    (Foresman)    Jordan.     His 


RIVERDA    H.    JORDAN 

first  known  American  ancestor  was  Roger  North,  who  came  from 
England  to  Philadelphia  about  1680;  the  first  Jordan  was  John, 
who  probably  came  from  Ulster  prior  to  1694  and  settled  in 
Pennsylvania.  Mr.  Jordan  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  in 
Missouri  and  Kansas,  was  cashier  of  the  Commercial  Bank  of 
St.  Joseph  from  1888  to  1892,  and  manager  of  the  St.  Joseph 
Clearing  House  Association.  His  wife,  Clara  (Harding)  Jordan 
(born  July  24,  1851,  in  St.  Joseph),  is  the  daughter  of  Captain 
Benjamin  Harding,  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  Kansas  and  a 
member  of  its  first  senate ;  her  mother,  Emily  Williams,  was 
descended  from  the  early  Dutch  settlers  of  New  York.  On  the 
paternal  side  she  traces  her  ancestry  to  William  Pynchon,  who 
came  from  England  to  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  in  1630;  he 
was  an  original  proprietor  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  Other 
ancestors  were  John  Talcott,  who  came  to  Boston  in  1632  and 


272  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

was  one  of  the  founders  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  in  1636,  and 
Edward  Holyoke,  who  came  to  Lynn  in  1630. 

R.  H.  Jordan  was  born  April  12,  1873,  m  St.  Joseph,  and  was 
prepared  at  the  Central  High  School  in  that  city.  In  college  he 
received  first  dispute  appointments  and  "also  ran"  with  the 
track  squad. 

From  1893  to  1895  he  was  cashier  for  the  R.  Douglas  Crock- 
ery  Company,  St.  Joseph.  Then  for  one  year  each  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  Johnson,  Rusk  &  Stringfellow,  lawyers  of  St. 
Joseph,  and  with  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  in 
that  city.  He  then  turned  to  educational  work  and  has  since 
been  engaged  in  teaching.  From  1897  to  1902  he  was  head 
of  the  department  of  mathematics  at  the  Central  High  School, 
St.  Joseph,  and  from  1902  to  1904  head  of  the  department  of 
Latin  and  Greek;  during  this  entire  period  he  was  also  direc- 
tor of  athletics  and  gymnasium  instructor.  In  1904  he  was 
appointed  principal  of  the  High  School  and  director  of  the  Nor- 
mal Training  School  and  held  this  position  until  191 1  when  he 
was  appointed  principal  of  West  High  School  in  Minneapolis. 
This  latter  post  he  resigned  in  June,  1917,  and  in  September 
he  was  appointed  teaching  assistant  in  the  Department  of  Rhetoric 
at  the  University  of  Minnesota  and  instructor  in  business  Eng- 
lish in  the  School  of  Agriculture.  He  has  entered  the  Graduate 
School  and  is  working  on  educational  administration  in  the  Col- 
lege of  Education.  He  has  been  appointed  instructor  in  the 
Department  of  Rhetoric  for  the  year  1918-19.  He  is  also  con- 
ducting correspondence  courses  in  secondary  education  and  rural 
education  in  the  University  Extension  Department. 

In  191 3  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Yale.  While  con- 
nected with  the  Missouri  schools  he  was  elected  in  1901  secreJ 
tary  of  the  Northwest  Missouri  Teachers'  Association,  was 
president  of  the  Missouri  Valley  Athletic  Association,  president 
of  the  Northwest  Inter-High  School  Association,  1909-1911, 
treasurer  of  the  Missouri  State  Teachers'  Association,  1902-04, 
vice-president  of  the  Missouri  Society  of  Sciences  and  Mathe- 
matics, secretary  of  the  Missouri  Classical  Society,  1908-11,  and  a 
member  of  the  City  Teachers'  Examining  Board,  1904-11.  In 
April,  191 2,  he  was  elected  Chairman  of  a  committee  of  the 
Minneapolis  Schoolmasters'  Club  to  confer  with  employers  and 
representatives  of  labor  on  the  best  methods  of  bringing 
employees  and  the  public  schools  into  closer  relationship.     He 


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has  presented  a  number  of  papers  before  these  associations  most 
of  which  were  later  published  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Missouri 
State  Teachers'  Association  and  in  educational  reports,  including 
the  National  Educational  Association  and  Southern  Educational 
Association  Proceedings.  He  has  also  contributed  to  such  edu- 
cational journals  as  the  Journal  of  Education,  Boston,  and  others. 
He  compiled  and  published  the  "Handbook  of  the  Missouri  Valley 
Interscholastic  Association"  in  1910.  He  was  editor  of  the  Edu- 
cational Section  of  the  Western  Home  Journal,  1909-1911. 

War  work :  He  was  captain  of  the  Graduate  School  in  the 
Second  Liberty  Loan  Drive;  assisted  in  giving  and  scoring 
psychological  tests  to  second  O.  T.  C.  at  Fort  Snelling;  these 
tests  were  made  the  official  government  intelligence  tests  for 
selection  of  officers  in  all  training  camps.  Is  a  member  of  War 
Savings  Society  of  the  College  of  Engineering,  and  has  done  sal- 
vage work  in  connection  with  the  Red  Cross. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  being  an  "original  Wilson  man." 
He  is  now  a  member  of  the  Hennepin  Avenue  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church  of  Minneapolis;  in  St.  Joseph  he  was  actively  iden- 
tified with  the  Francis  Street  Church. 

He  belongs  to  the  University  Club  of  Minneapolis,  School- 
masters*  Club,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  Civic  and  Commerce  Asso- 
ciation, American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science, 
is  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Geographic  Society,  and  a  member 
of  the  National  Educational  Association,  and  of  the  American 
Society  of  Educational  Research.  He  has  been  elected  to  the 
honorary  professional  educational  fraternity  of  Phi  Delta  Kappa, 
and  is  president  of  the  Minnesota  Chapter.  He  was  elected 
representative  of  the  Graduate  School  to  the  All-University 
Council  of  the  University  of  Minnesota. 

He  was  married  August  3,  1909,  in  St.  Joseph,  to  Mary  Vinette, 
daughter  of  George  H.  Hoover,  a  merchant,  and  Barbara  Ann 
(Bechtel)  Hoover.  They  have  two  sons,  both  born  in  Minne- 
apolis: Richard  Hollister,  born  September  21,  191 1,  and  Hoover 
Harding,  born  September  13,  1913. 

June  1,  191 7,  was  designated  by  the  pupils  of  West  High 
School,  Minneapolis,  as  R.  H.  Jordan  Day  and  badges  with  this 
inscription  were  worn.  In  the  evening  a  farewell  demonstra- 
tion was  held  at  the  school  under  the  auspices  of  the  Parent- 
Teachers'  Association.  "A  short  time  ago,"  says  the  Minne- 
apolis Morning   Tribune  of  June  2,    191 7,   "a  member  of  the 


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Parent-Teachers'  Association,  after  much  and  varied  strategy, 
learned  Mr.  Jordan's  hobby — fishing.  And  he  was  a  surprised 
man  last  night  when  a  complete  angler's  outfit,  including  all  sorts 
of  wearing  apparel  and  paraphernalia,  was  handed  to  him." 

The  Senior  Class  at  West  High  proposed  as  a  Class  memorial 
a  "large  full  length  picture ;  a  bronze  tablet,  or  statue  of  Mr.  Jor- 
dan, instead  of  adding  to  the  collection  of  Sir  Galahad  pic- 
tures." Unfortunately  the  Class  was  not  allowed  thus  to  give 
expression  to  its  gratitude  to  Mr.  Jordan. 


HOMER    T.    JOY 


Homer  Thrall  Joy 

Physician,  60  West  Fifty-eighth  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  49  West  Fifty-seventh  Street,  New  York  City 

Temporary  address,  Redlands,  California 

Thomas  Joy,  who  came  from  England  in  1635  and  settled  in 
Boston,  was  the  first  American  ancestor.  Our  classmate's  father, 
Colonel  Edmund  Lewis  Joy,  son  of  Charles  and  Harriet  (Shaw) 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  275 

Joy,  was  born  October  1,  1835,  m  Albany,  New  York,  and  died 
February  14,  1892,  in  Newark,  New  Jersey.  He  was  graduated 
at  the  University  of  Rochester  in  1856,  admitted  to  the  New 
York  Bar,  but  soon  after  settled  in  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  where  he 
was  city  attorney,  1860-61.  He  was  Judge  Advocate,  7th  Army 
Corps,  Department  of  Arkansas,  during  the  Civil  War,  and 
afterwards  was  admitted  to  partnership  with  his  father  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  and  continued  the  business  until  his  death. 
He  served  in  the  New  Jersey  legislature,  was  a  delegate  to  the 
Republican  National  Convention  in  1884,  and  government  director 
of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad.  On  November  24,  1862,  he  mar- 
ried Theresa  R.  Thrall,  daughter  of  Homer  Thrall,  M.D.,  pro- 
fessor of  chemistry  at  Kenyon  College  and  of  materia  medica  at 
Starling  Medical  College,  and  had  three  children :  Edmund  F. 
S.  Joy,  B.A.  Williams  1886,  Ph.D.  Columbia  1892;  Harriet 
Shaw  Joy  (married  Robert  D.  Martin,  B.A.  Yale  1880),  and 
H.  T.  Joy.  Mrs.  Joy  was  born  June  9,  1836,  in  Utica,  Ohio,  and 
died  June  8,  191 1,  in  Newark,  New  Jersey.  Her  first  American 
ancestor,  William  Thrall,  came  from  England  in  1633  and  set- 
tled in  Windsor,  Connecticut. 

Homer  Joy  was  born  December  9,  1872,  in  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  was  prepared  at  the  Newark  Academy.  He  received  a 
Senior  colloquy,  an  elocution  prize,  Sophomore  year,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  second  Banjo  Club. 

He  was  a  student  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
Columbia,  from  1893  to  1896  when  he  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.  His  hospital  service  was  in  Bellevue,  where  he  finished  as 
house  physician  in  1898  and  house  surgeon  in  1900.  He  has  since 
practiced  in  New  York  City.  From  1900  to  1907  he  served  as 
New  York  City  examiner  for  the  Equitable  Life  Assurance 
Society,  and  then  for  one  year  as  medical  director  of  the  Eastern 
Life  Insurance  Company.  Since  1900  he  has  been  attending 
physician  to  the  O.  P.  D.  Department  at  Roosevelt  Hospital, 
and  is  examiner  in  Lunacy  for  New  York  State. 

He  is  a  Republican.     He  attends  the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Yale  Club ;  New  York  Chapter,  Sons  of 
the  Revolution;  Oakland  Golf  Club,  New  York  City;  Society 
of  the  Alumni  of  Bellevue  Hospital,  and  New  York  Academy  of 
Medicine. 

He  was  married  November  9,  1905,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Elizabeth  Josephine,  daughter  of  Frederick  Theodore  van  Beuren, 


276  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

manager  of  the  van  Beuren  &  Spingler  Estates,  and  Elizabeth 
(Potter)  van  Beuren.  They  have  two  sons:  Homer  van 
Beuren,  born  September  16,  1907,  in  Morristown,  New  Jersey, 
now  attending  the  Buckley  School,  New  York,  and  Frederick 
van  Beuren,  born  July  2,  191 1,  in  New  York  City.  Mrs.  Joy's 
brothers  are  Frederick  Theodore  van  Beuren,  Jr.,  B.A.  Yale  1898, 
M.D.  Columbia  1902,  and  Michael  Murray  van  Beuren,  Yale 
ex-96. 

Joy  writes :  "Three  years  ago  Mrs.  Joy's  health  broke  down 
following  a  severe  operation  for  appendicitis,  and  for  two  years 
we  have  been  in  the  West :  for  the  past  year  in  California  and 
for  the  year  preceding  in  New  Mexico  and  Arizona.  Mrs. 
Joy's  health  is  greatly  improved  and  she  looks  forward  to  our 
return  East. 

"While  in  New  Mexico  and  Arizona  we  visited  several  of  the 
Indian  Pueblo  villages  and  witnessed  many  of  their  religious  and 
ceremonial  dances.  The  tranquillity  in  these  states  was  undis- 
turbed by  any  care  of  foreign  relations  till  uneasiness  developed 
last  spring  over  the  Mexican  situation." 


Walter  Parmelee  Judson 

Lawyer,  185  Church  Street,  New  Haven,  Connecticut 

Residence,  311  Orchard  Street,  New  Haven,  Connecticut 

Judson  is  a  son  of  Charles  E.  and  Martha  J.  (Parmelee) 
Judson,  who  were  married  April  21,  1856,  and  had  four  other 
children:  Charles  W.,  Homer  L.,  Jerome  T.  and  Ada  B.  Judson. 
The  father  (born  July  5,  1833,  in  South  Britain,  Connecticut; 
died  February  18,  1898,  in  New  Haven)  lived  in  New  Haven 
from  1850  until  his  death.  He  was  a  merchant,  being  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Judson  Brothers,  provision  dealers,  for  twenty- 
four  years,  and  president  of  the  company  of  the  same  name  for 
nine  years.  His  first  American  ancestor,  William  Judson,  came 
from  England,  settled  first  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  in 
1634  at  Concord,  removing  to  Stratford,  Connecticut,  in  1639, 
being  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  that  town.  The  mother  (born 
April  26,  1836,  in  New  Haven;  died  there  November  14,  1897) 
was  also  descended  from  English  settlers  in  Massachusetts,  one 


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277 


John  Parmelee  having  come  from  that  colony  as  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Guilford,  Connecticut. 

Walter  Judson  was  born  December  30,  1869,  in  New  Haven, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School.  He  received 
colloquy  appointments  in  college. 

For  one  year  he  was  in  business  with  Russell  Brothers,  grocers, 
New  Haven,  before  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law.      During 


WALTER   P.   JUDSON 


his  second  year  of  graduate  study  (1895-96)  he  was  also  teach- 
ing at  the  school  in  Highwood.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
and  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  in  June,  1896,  and  has 
since  practiced  in  New  Haven. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  he  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the 
party,  serving  at  different  times  on  ward  committees  in  New 
Haven.  During  the  winter  of  1917-18  he  has  been  acting  as 
associate  member  of  one  of  the  local  legal  advisory  boards  under 
the  Selective  Service  Regulations. 

He  belongs  to  the  Methodist  Church.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  Union  League  Club,  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  New  Haven,  and  the  American  Bar  Association. 

He  has  not  married. 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Adrian  VanSinderen  Lambert 

Surgeon,   and   associate   professor   of    surgery,   Columbia   University, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  168  East  Seventy-first  Street,   New  York  City 

Lambert  is  a  son  of  Edward  Wilberforce  and  Martha  Melcher 
(Waldron)  Lambert,  who  were  married  September  9,  1858,  and 
had  nine  other  children :  Samuel  Waldron  Lambert,  Yale  '80, 
Alexander  Lambert,  Yale  '84,  Elliot  Cowdin  Lambert,  Yale  '86 
(died  April  8,  1914),  Mary  (died  in  August,  1862),  Sally 
(married  Dickinson  W.  Richards,  Yale  '8o),  Katharine,  Edith 
(married  William  R.  Barbour,  Yale  '80),  Ruth  (married  Knight 
D.  Cheney,  Yale  '92),  and  Gertrude  Hammond  Lambert  (died 
April  17,  1883).  Edward  W.  Lambert  (born  February  15,  1831, 
in  Boston,  Massachusetts;  died  July  17,  1904,  in  New  York 
City)  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  the  Class  of  1854  and  from  the 


ADRIAN   V.    S.   LAMBERT 


College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Columbia,  in  1857.  He 
practiced  his  profession  in  New  York  and  was  medical  director 
of  the  Equitable  Life  Assurance   Society  from  its   foundation 


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until  his  death.  The  Lambert  family  traces  its  ancestry  from 
Francis  Lambert,  who  came  from  Rowley,  England,  in  1639, 
and  settled  a  town  by  the  same  name  in  Massachusetts.  Martha 
(Waldron)  Lambert  was  born  September  14,  1832,  in  Ports- 
mouth, New  Hampshire,  and  died  February  11,  1913,  in  New 
York  City. 

Adrian  Lambert  was  born  June  30,  1872,  in  New  York  City, 
and  was  prepared  at  a  small  private  school  in  New  York.  He 
received  a  Senior  colloquy  appointment,  was  treasurer  of  the 
University  Football  Association  in  Junior  year  and  a  member 
of  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

Following  the  lead  of  his  father  and  two  brothers,  he  entered 
Columbia  and  in  1896  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  and  was 
licensed  to  practice  in  New  York.  He  served  his  internship  at 
the  New  York  Hospital,  both  medical  and  surgical  service,  and 
in  July,  1899,  went  abroad  to  study  in  Germany  for  a  year. 
Since  1900  he  has  practiced  in  New  York.  His  hospital  work  has 
been  as  follows :  assistant  surgeon,  New  York  Lying-in  Hospital, 
1900-1904;  attending  surgeon,  Lincoln  Hospital,  1906-1909; 
assistant  surgeon,  Bellevue  Hospital,  since  1905 ;  chief  surgeon, 
Vanderbilt  Clinic,  since  1908;  associate  attending  surgeon, 
Presbyterian  Hospital,  since  191 3,  and  director  of  surgical 
service,  Presbyterian  Hospital,  since  1917.  He  has  been 
associated  with  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in 
teaching  capacities  since  1900  and  in  1917  was  appointed  acting 
professor  of  surgery. 

He  has  published  various  technical  articles  on  surgical  topics 
in  medical  journals  and  has  contributed  to  several  systems  on 
surgery,  etc. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven,  the 
University,  Yale,  Century,  and  Union  clubs  of  New  York,  the 
New  York  Surgical  Society,  American  College  of  Surgeons, 
American  Medical  Association,  New  York  County  Medical 
Society,  New  York  Neurological  Society,  Association  of 
American  Anatomists,  and  the  New  York  Academy  of  Medicine. 

He  was  married  June  1,  1905,  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  to 
Mary  Shipman,  daughter  of  Henry  Cornelius  Robinson,  Yale  '53, 
and  Eliza  Niles  (Trumbull)  Robinson.  They  have  four  children: 
Mary  Robinson,  born  March  4,  1908,  in  New  York  City ;  Adrian, 
born  September  21,  1909,  in  New  York  City;  John  Trumbull, 
born  August  24,  1912,  at  Scarsdale,  New  York,  and  Ruth,  born 


28o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

October  31,  19 14,  in  New  York  City.  Mrs.  Lambert's  three 
brothers  are  Yale  graduates :  Lucius  F.,  Henry  S.,  and  John  T. 
Robinson,  of  the  Classes  of  1885,  1889,  and  1893,  respectively. 

Lambert  writes:  "When  I  returned  from  Europe  I  had  the 
ambition  to  make  a  living.  I  thought  that  it  would  be  a  difficult 
thing  to  do,  and  a  proper,  decent  thing  to  do.  I  still  consider  it 
proper  and  decent  but  soon  found  it  so  easy  I  took  an  active 
part  in  teaching.  This  had  really  always  interested  me  and  I 
have  been  doing  it  ever  since.  I  have  never  become  a  great  or 
brilliant  teacher  although  rather  better  than  the  average  but 
not  much.  I  have  always  hoped  to  become  better  but  doubt  now 
if  I  ever  shall.  I  have  always  desired  to  do  some  original 
research  but  among  the  many  other  duties  which  seemed  neces- 
sary I  have  not  made  the  time.  I  have  no  hobbies  or  special 
interests  outside  of  my  work  and  would  qualify  rather  well 
among  that  vast  army  of  uninteresting,  colorless  citizens  who 
lead  humdrum  lives,  keep  out  of  scandal,  die,  and  are  forgotten." 


Edwin  Ruthven  Lamson 

President,  The  Dustoline  for  Roads  Company,  93  Summit  Avenue, 
Summit,  New  Jersey 

Residences  (winter),  120  Summit  Avenue,  Summit,  New  Jersey 
(summer),    "Waveland,"    Belle  Terre,  Port  Jefferson,  Long  Island 

Lamson  is  a  son  of  John  Sawyer  and  Mary  Hart  (Hunter) 
Lamson,  who  were  married  June  15,  1859,  in  Yonkers,  New 
York,  and  had  five  other  children:  Harriet  Newell  Lamson  (died 
in  1862)  ;  John  Sawyer  Lamson  (died  November  28,  191 5,  in 
Summit,  New  Jersey);  William  Judson  Lamson,  Yale  '93; 
Horace  Holden  Lamson,  and  Mary  Judson  Lamson  (married 
George  Clarke  Musgrave).  The  father  (born  April  21,  1833,  in 
Andover,  Massachusetts;  died  August  21,  1883,  in  Boxford, 
Massachusetts)  founded  the  firm  of  John  S.  Lamson  &  Brother, 
New  York  City,  in  i860  and  was  the  head  of  the  firm  until  his 
death.  It  dealt  in  gums,  manganese,  asphaltum,  and  other  South 
American  products,  and  it  was  through  Mr.  Lamson's  efforts 
that  the  large  and  valuable  collection  of  Chiriqui  pottery  was 
made  and  secured  for  Peabody  Museum.  He  was  descended 
from   William   Lamson   of    Ipswich,   Massachusetts,   who   came 


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from  England  in  1634;    his  father  was  Rev.  Samuel  Lamson, 

B.A.  Brown  1828.     His  wife  (born  July  15,  1837,  in  Shrewsbury, 

New  Jersey,  and  died  June  21,  191 1,  in  Summit,  New  Jersey) 

was  a  student  at  Mount  Holyoke  Seminary   (now  College),  in 

1854.     Her  ancestor,  John 

Hunter,  was  born  in  Dublin, 

Ireland,    and    came    to    New 

York  about  1800.     Her  father 

was  Rev.  John  Hart  Hunter, 

a  graduate  of  Union  College, 

Schenectady. 

Edwin  Lamson  was  born 
March  12,  1867,  in  New  York 
City,  and  was  prepared  at  Dr. 
Pingry's  School  in  Elizabeth, 
New  Jersey,  and  at  the  pre- 
paratory school  of  Oberlin 
College,  after  five  years  in 
business  following  his  father's 
death.  At  Yale  he  received 
two-year  honors  in  history, 
took  a  second  prize  in  a  Uni- 
versity Bicycle  Race,  second 
place  in  the  Class  Tennis 
Tournament,  and  won  a  place, 
by  competitive  debate,  on  the 
debating  team  which  met  Harvard  at  Cambridge. 

After  graduation  he  worked  for  Carter,  Dinsmore  &  Company, 
manufacturers  of  inks,  etc.,  in  Boston,  during  1893- 1894,  and  then 
engaged  in  the  advertising  business  under  the  name,  E.  R.  Lam- 
son Company,  for  a  year.  In  1895  he  became  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Lamson,  Wolffe  &  Company,  publishers,  Boston,  and 
continued  in  this  business  until  1899,  although  after  the  first  four 
months  he  was  the  only  member  of  the  company.  From  June, 
1899,  to  January,  1901,  he  was  New  York  representative  of  the 
Guardian  Trust  Company,  and  for  a  short  time  in  the  latter  year 
was  associated  with  Schwart,  Dupee  &  Company,  stocks,  New 
York  City.  After  leaving  this  company  he  was,  for  two  years, 
manager  of  the  New  Haven  branch  office  of  the  American 
Finance  &  Securities  Company  of  New  York.  Then  he  was 
with  Catlin-Powell   Company,  brokers,   New  York,   until   191 1, 


EDWIN   R.   LAMSON 


282  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

when  he  was  made  director  of  the  Proprietary  Mines  Company  of 
America,  and  vice-president  and  president  of  the  Dustoline  for 
Roads  Company  of  Summit,  New  Jersey.  He  now  devotes  all 
of  his  time  to  the  last  named  company.  He  has  a  summer  home 
called  "Waveland,"  at  Port  Jefferson,  Long  Island. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church.  From  1896  to  1899  he  was  a  member  of  the 
1st  Corps  of  Independent  Cadets,  Volunteer  Militia  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  went  to  Cuba  on  the  Yale  with  General  Miles, 
arriving  in  time  to  see  the  final  surrender  of  Santiago. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club  of  New  York. 

He  has  not  married. 

Lamson  writes:  "As  for  my  hobby  of  recent  years  (1907  on, 
when  I  have  had  spare  time,  instead  of  cards,  etc.),  I  have  tried  to 
study  art  and  have  modelled  a  number  of  heads  and  small  pieces. 
My  interest  in  sculpturing  arose  through  my  intimate  friend- 
ship with  Rudolph  Evans,  the  sculptor  at  71  Washington  Place. 
The  latter  has  achieved  very  high  distinction  from  France. 

"Literature  and  art  and  bookplates  and  especially  sculpture 
have  interested  me  most  until  I  have  exhausted  myself  trying  to 
help  to  do  my  bit  to  influence  the  U.  S.  to  help  put  down  the 
Hun — the  unspeakable  Hun,  which  has  brought  me  into  as  close 
association  in  this  war  as  I  enjoyed  in  the  Spanish  War  with  the 
Navy,  for  which  I  have  most  unbounded  admiration  and  respect. 

"To  help  my  fellow  beings  has  always  been  my  supreme  aim 
and  I  only  regret  that  life  or  fate  has  not  given  me  greater 
capacity  and  opportunity  to  do  more." 


William  Judson  Lamson 

Physician,  120  Summit  Avenue,  Summit,  New  Jersey 

William  J.  Lamson,  youngest  son  of  John  Sawyer  and  Mary 
Hart  (Hunter)  Lamson,  whose  history  is  recorded  in  the  pre- 
ceding sketch,  was  born  May  14,  187 1,  in  Orange,  New  Jersey. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Montclair  (New  Jersey)  High  School, 
and  in  college  received  a  high  oration  Junior  and  a  philosophical 
oration  Senior  appointment,  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Second  Banjo  Club. 

He  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  College 


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283 


of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Columbia,  in  1896,  and  licensed  to 
practice  in  June  of  that  year.  The  following  year  he  studied  in 
Berlin  and  Vienna  and  then,  returning  to  New  York,  he  spent 


WILLIAM    J.   LAMSON 


two  years,  1897- 1899,  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital  as  interne.  He  was 
attending  physician  to  Demilt  Dispensary,  New  York  City,  in 
1900  and  1901,  and  in  1902  moved  to  Summit,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  has  since  practiced. 

He  is  president  of  the  Medical  Board  of  Overlook  Hospital, 
Summit,  and  a  member  of  the  Union  County  (New  Jersey) 
Mosquito  Extermination  Commission,  and  of  the  Medical  Milk 
Commission  of  Union  County.  Since  1909  he  has  served  as 
medical  inspector  for  the  schools  of  Summit. 

He  has  written  occasional  articles  for  medical  journals  and 
has  recently  published  a  family  genealogy,  entitled,  "Descendants 
of  William  Lamson  of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts." 

He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Summit. 
He  belongs  to  the  Canoe  Brook  Country  Club,  the  Highland 
Club,  to  the  Summit  Medical  Society,  and  to  the  American  Medi- 
cal Association. 

He  has  not  married. 


284  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Lamson  writes:  "I  am  still  a  bachelor,  because,  perhaps,  as 
the  poet  says,  T  would  rather  be  lonely  than  bored,'  or  possibly 
because  I  have  not  yet  found  a  girl  who  'would  eat  out  of  my 
hand/  I  am  living  with  two  'trained  aunts/  who  make  me  so 
comfortable  that  I  fear  to  change  my  habits.  Besides,  I  am 
getting  old. 

"I  am  a  general  practitioner,  in  a  city  of  10,000,  famed  for  its 
charm  and  beauty,  and  enjoy  my  work  to  the  full.  My  recrea- 
tions are  golf,  billiards,  theatre,  bridge,  and  motoring.  My 
vacations  have  taken  the  form  of  motor  trips  all  over  the  eastern 
part  of  the  country,  with  a  few  congenial  medical  colleagues. 
My  accomplishments  are  few, — my  aims  high.  No  work  in  life 
is  so  satisfactory  as  that  of  a  physician, — no  profession  offers 
such  rewards  or  has  higher  ideals.  My  health  is  excellent,  my 
friends  many,  my  work  always  interesting, — what  more  can  a 
graduate  of  twenty-five  years  wish?" 


Irwin  Boyle  Laughlin 

Counsellor  of  the  U.  S.  Embassy,  London,  England 

Business  address,  care  Department  of  State,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Home  address,  Woodland  Road,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania 

Laughlin  is  the  eldest  of  the  three  sons  of  George  McCully 
and  Isabel  Bowman  (McKennan)  Laughlin,  who  were  married 
November  16,  1865.  The  other  sons  are  George  McCully 
Laughlin,  Yale  ex-'g$  S.,  and  Thomas  McKennan  Laughlin, 
'97  s.  (died  March  11,  1910,  in  Pittsburgh).  George  M. 
Laughlin,  Sr.  (born  October  21,  1842,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania; died  in  that  city  December  8,  1908),  was  of  Scotch-Irish 
ancestry ;  his  father,  James  Laughlin,  came  from  Ulster  to  Bal- 
timore, Maryland,  about  1830.  He  entered  Washington  and 
Jefferson  College  but  left  on  the  outbreak  of  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion  to  volunteer  as  a  private.  He  was  later  commissioned 
a  2d  Lieutenant  of  the  155th  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  served  on 
Major  General  Griffin's  staff  as  Captain  until  the  end  of  the  war 
when  he  was  brevetted  Major.  He  was  a  steel  manufacturer  and 
a  director  in  many  banks  and  trust  companies.  Mrs.  Laughlin 
(born  October  10,  1843,  in  Washington,  Pennsylvania;  died 
December  5,  1891,  in  New  York  City)  was  descended  from 
Scotch    and    French    ancestors.     Her    first    American    ancestor 


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285 


(Rev.  James  McKennan)  came  from  Barbadoes,  West  Indies,  to 
the  Brick  Church,  New  Jersey,  before  1750.     His  son,  William 


IRWIN    B.   LAUGHLIN 


McKennan,  was  a  Captain  in  the  Continental  Army  during  the 
Revolution  and  an  original  member  of  the  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati. 

Irwin  B.  Laughlin  was  born  April  26,  1871,  in  Pittsburgh,  and 
was  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  New  Hampshire.  In 
college  he  received  colloquies  in  Junior  and  Senior  years,  was  an 
associate  editor  of  the  News  and  chairman  of  the  Board  in 
Senior  year,  and  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  Eta  Phi,  Psi 
Upsilon,  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

He  spent  the  year  following  graduation  in  a  trip  around  the 
world,  and  then,  from  1894  to  1897,  was  with  the  Jones  &  Laugh- 
lin Steel  Company.  In  1897-98  he  studied  French  at  Tours  and 
in  the  winter  of  1898-99  traveled  in  the  Orient  again.  From  1899 
to  1903  he  was  treasurer  of  the  steel  company.  In  November, 
1903,  he  began  his  diplomatic  career  and  the  following  catalogue 
of  his  appointments  suggests  a  varied  experience :  November, 
1903,  appointed  private  secretary  to  the  United  States  Minister  to 
Japan,  at  Tokio ;    January,  1905,  advanced  to  second  secretary 


286  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

of  Legation;  June,  1906,  appointed  second  secretary  of  Legation 
and  Consul  General  at  Bangkok,  Siam;  March  to  September, 
1907,  acting  first  secretary  at  Peking;  June,  1907,  appointed 
second  secretary  of  Embassy  at  St.  Petersburg  (Petrograd)  ; 
September,  1908,  transferred  to  Athens  as  first  secretary  of 
Legation ;  August,  1909,  advanced  to  second  secretary  of 
Embassy,  Paris;  December,  1909,  first  secretary  of  Embassy, 
Berlin;  October  to  November,  1910,  secretary,  special  Embassy 
to  Sultan  of  Turkey;  June  to  October,  191 1,  charge  d'affaires  at 
Berlin;  September,  1912,  advanced  to  first  secretary  of  Embassy 
at  London;  December  15,  1912,  to  May  24,  1913,  and  July  to 
October,  1916,  charge  d'affaires  at  London;  July  17,  1916, 
appointed  by  the  President  to  be  counsellor  of  Embassy  at 
London. 

He  was  decorated  by  the  Emperor  of  Japan  with  the  Order  of 
the  Rising  Sun  (fourth  class)  "as  an  expression  of  his  high 
appreciation  of  the  services  rendered  to  Japan  during  the  recent 
war  between  Japan  and  Russia." 

He  belongs  to  the  Episcopal  Church  and  from  1910  to  1912  was 
chairman  of  the  Church  Committee  of  St.  George's  Church  in 
Berlin.  He  is  a  member  of  the  following:  Historical  Society  of 
Pennsylvania,  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion ;  Pittsburgh, 
and  Pittsburgh  Golf  clubs;  Union,  University,  and  Knicker- 
bocker clubs  (New  York)  ;  Metropolitan  Club  (Washington)  ; 
St.  James'  and  Turf  clubs    (London). 

He  was  married  September  18,  191 2,  in  New  Rochelle,  New 
York,  to  Therese,  daughter  of  Adrian  and  Louise  (Caylus) 
Iselin.  They  have  a  daughter,  Gertrude  Louise  Isabel,  born 
December  11,  1914,  in  London,  and  a  son,  Alexander  George 
Adrian,  born  April  11,  1918,  in  Reigate,  Surrey. 

Laughlin  says :  "Since  August,  1914,  I  have  had  only  one 
thought ;  the  one  that  now  fills  the  minds  of  all  of  us." 


*Burton  Emerson  Leavitt 

Died  November  19,  1912 

Leavitt  was  the  son  of  Nason  W.  and  Jennie  (Martin)  Leavitt. 
His  father  was  a  traveling  salesman  and  later  a  teacher  of 
music  in  the  public  schools  of  Willimantic,  Connecticut. 

Burton  E.  Leavitt  was  born  October  13,   1871,  in  Scotland, 


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287 


Connecticut,  and  was  prepared  for  Yale  in  the  Willimantic  High 
School.     Before  entering  college  he  composed  an  opera,    "The 
Frogs   of   Windham,"    based   on   a   local   tradition,   which   was 
presented  under  his  direction 
in    nearly    all    the    cities    and 
large   towns    of    Connecticut. 
In  spite  of  frequent  necessary 
absences  from  college  to  con- 
duct  these   performances,   he 
received    a    second    colloquy 
Junior    and    a    first    colloquy 
Senior  appointment. 

After  graduation  he  con- 
tinued his  study  of  music 
under  Dr.  Stoeckel,  and  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Music  in  1894,  when  that 
degree  was  first  awarded. 

The  popularity  of  "The 
Frogs  of  Windham"  induced 
him  to  compose  six  other 
operas,  all  founded  on  local 
legends  and  introducing  In- 
dian characters,  and  he  de- 
voted   much    of    his    time    to 

producing  these  operas  throughout  New  England.  He  wrote 
many  songs,  "The  Factory  to  the  Potter's  Field,"  on  the  child 
labor  problem,  which  created  quite  a  sensation,  being  the  best 
known ;  published  two  books,  "The  Music  of  the  Lake"  and 
"Songs  of  Protest";  and  nearly  completed  a  Biblical  opera, 
"Tea-Tephi." 

He  directed  historical  pageants  at  Norwich  and  New  London, 
Connecticut,  in  commemoration  of  the  settlement  of  those  places, 
and  wrote  the  band  music  for  the  various  scenes.  In  each  of 
these  pageants  over  1,000  people  took  part. 

In  1906  he  was  nominated  on  the  Socialist  ticket  for  Congress- 
man-at-large  from  Connecticut,  and  during  the  last  four  years 
of  his  life  edited  Our  Race  Quarterly,  a  magazine  founded  by 
Charles  A.  L.  Totten  who  was  in  charge  of  the  military  instruc- 
tion at  Yale  from  1889  to  1892. 

He  died  of  sarcoma,  November  19,  191 2,  in  Putnam,  Connecticut. 
He  was  unmarried. 


BURTON    E.    LEAVITT 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


^Frederick  Merwin  Lloyd 

Died  May  13,  1905 

Lloyd,  only  son  of  Samuel  and  Josephine   (Merwin)    Lloyd, 
was  born  March  23,  1871,  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  where 

his  father  was  for  many  years 
cashier  of  the  City  Bank. 
After  graduating  at  the  Hillj 
house  High  School  he  was 
with  Stoddard,  Kimberly  and 
Company  for  a  year.  In  col- 
lege he  received  a  first  dispute 
appointment  both  Junior  and 
Senior  years,  was  an  editor  of 
the  Yale  Daily  News,  and  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon. 

In  January,  1894,  he  en- 
tered the  office  of  the  Security 
Insurance  Company  of  New 
Haven  as  clerk.  Later  he 
was  made  special  agent  for 
New  England,  and  from  Jan- 
uary, 1904,  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  May  13,  1905, 
he  had  been  assistant  secre- 
tary of  this  company. 
He  was  married  June  6,  1901,  to  Bertha  Frances  Herrick, 
B.A.  Smith  1896,  daughter  of  Dwight  S.  and  Frances  S.  Her- 
rick of  Peekskill,  New  York.  His  sister,  Edith  Merwin  Lloyd, 
who  married  Charles  Ailing  Tuttle,  Ph.B.  1888,  M.D.  1890,  died 
November  9,  1907. 


FREDERICK    M.    LLOYD 


Arthur  Power  Lord 

Divisional  Secretary,  Knights  of  Columbus,  Paris,  France 

Address,  care  of   E.   I.   du   Pont  de  Nemours   Powder   Company,   Paris, 

France 

Arthur  P.  Lord,  the  son  of  George  Washington  Taylor  Lord, 
was  born  October  22,  1868,  in  New  York  City.  In  college  he 
received  second  colloquy  appointments  both  Junior  and  Senior 


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289 


years,  and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and  of  Alpha 
Delta  Phi. 

From  1893  to  1898  he  studied  art  in  Paris,  France,  having 
received  his  M.A.  degree  at  Yale  in  1896.  The  year  1898- 1899 
was  spent  in  graduate  work  at  Yale,  for  which  he  received  the 
degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1899.  He  then  returned  to  Paris,  where  he 
remained  until  1903,  when  he  returned  to  New  York. 

While  in  France  he  acted  as  agent  of  the  University  Library, 
purchasing  with  University  funds  necessary  books  for  different 
departments.  He  has  also  made  generous  gifts  to  the  Univer- 
sity Library  of  books  necessary  to  make  the  department  of 
French  History  complete.  In  1904  he  reorganized  the  Athens 
Knitting  Company,  and  in  1905  was  elected  vice-president  of  the 
company.  He  was  from  1907-1908  vice-president  of  the  Morri- 
son Oil  Company,  treasurer  of  the  Seneca  Falls  Woolen  Com- 
pany, and  in  September,  1907,  was  appointed  general  manager, 
Eastern  Division,  of  the  In- 
dian Refining  Company,  with 
offices  in  New  York  City.  In 
September,  1907,  he  was  also 
appointed  president  of  the 
Bridgeport  Oil  Company. 
On  July  1,  1907,  he  moved  to 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  connec- 
tion with  his  duties  with  the 
Indian  Refining  Company; 
but  early  in  1909  he  returned 
to  New  York  City  as  eastern 
and  foreign  manager  of  this 
company,  and  in  May  of  that 
year  moved  to  Paris,  to  take 
charge  of  the  company's 
foreign  headquarters.  In 
191 1  he  was  appointed  assist- 
ant to  the  president,  and  re- 
turned to  New  York  City,  but 
continued  to  direct  the  foreign 
business  of  the  company.     He 

resigned  in  191 2,  and  has  since  been  living  in  Paris,  representing 
the  E.  I.  du  Pont  de  Nemours  Powder  Company,  of  which  he 
was  appointed  assistant  to  the  vice-president  in  January,   191 3. 


ARTHUR    P.   LORD 


29o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


During  the  war  he  has  been  actively  engaged  in  caring  for  the 
business  affairs  of  French  friends  serving  at  the  front  and  as 
Divisional  Secretary  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 

In  1896  he  published  a  sketch  of  Frederick  the  Great,  and  in 
1899,  "Regency  of  Marie  de  Medicis,"  Henry  Holt  and  Com- 
pany, New  York. 

He  was  married  February  8,  1897,  in  San  Francisco,  to 
Marion,  daughter  of  Andrew  Anderson  Louderback  of  San 
Francisco,  California.  A  son,  Arthur  Andrew  Lord,  born 
November  20,  1897,  after  completing  his  education  at  Eton, 
came  to  New  York  City  for  a  period  of  training  in  the  Guar- 
anty Trust  Company,  and  is  now  occupying  a  position  of  respon- 
sibility in  the  Paris  office  of  that  company. 


Irving  Phillips  Lyon 

Major,  Medical  Corps,  Chief  of  Medical  Service,  Base  Hospital, 
Camp  Upton 

Physician,  531  Franklin  Street,  Buffalo,  New  York 

Lyon  is  a  son  of  Irving  Whitall  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Tucker) 
Lyon,  who  were  married  in  1866  and  had  two  other  children: 
Charles  Woolsey  Lyon,  ^r-1895  S.,  and  Mrs.  Chester  B.  Albree. 
Of  English  descent  on  both  sides,  the  paternal  line  traces  its  ances- 
try to  Thomas  Lyon,  who  settled  at  Stamford,  Connecticut,  in 
1647.  Irving  W.  Lyon  (born  October  18,  1840,  in  Bedford,  New 
York;  died  March  4,  1896,  in  Hartford,  Connecticut)  was  gradu- 
ated from  the  University  of  Vermont  in  1862  with  the  degree  of 
M.D.  and  received  a  like  degree  from  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  Columbia,  in  1863.  He  was  an  acting  assistant  sur- 
geon in  the  U.  S.  Army  in  1862  and  from  1864  until  his  death 
practiced  his  profession  in  Hartford.  For  thirty  years  he  was 
medical  director  of  the  Hartford  Life  &  Annuity  Insurance 
Company.  In  1891  he  published  a  book  on  "The  Colonial  Fur- 
niture of  New  England."  His  wife  was  born  September  12, 
1838,  in  New  York  City,  and  died  May  1,  191 2,  in  Buffalo,  New 
York. 

Irving  P.  Lyon  was  born  January  12,  1870,  in  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, and  was  prepared  at  the  Hartford  Public  High  School. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Union,  received  a  high  oration 
Junior  and  an  oration  Senior  appointment,  and  was  elected  to 
Phi  Beta  Kappa. 


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He  pursued  his  graduate  studies  at  Johns  Hopkins  University 
and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1897,  in  the  previous  summer 
having  been  appointed  bacteriologist  and  pathologist  at  Wilson 
Sanitarium,  Baltimore.     The  summer  of  1895  was  spent  in  travel 


IRVING    P.    LVOX 


abroad  and  that  of  1897  in  study  in  Germany.  He  served  on  the 
house  staff  at  Johns  Hopkins  Hospital  in  1897-98  and  in  Decem- 
ber, 1898,  opened  an  office  in  Buffalo.  In  1899  ne  was  appointed 
to  the  faculty  of  the  University  of  Buffalo,  as  instructor  in  medi- 
cine, serving  in  this  capacity  until  1907,  when  he  was  made  lecturer 
on  clinical  medicine;  since  1914  he  has  been  assistant  professor  of 
medicine.  From  1910  to  1916  he  was  assistant  attending  physi- 
cian to  the  Buffalo  General  Hospital ;  since  1916  he  has  ranked  as 
attending  physician. 

He  was  commissioned  a  Major  in  the  Medical  Corps  on  June 
27,  1918,  and  began  his  active  service  at  the  Base  Hospital, 
Camp  Upton,  July  10,  1918,  being  assigned  as  assistant  to  the 
Chief  of  Medical  Service.  He  became  Chief  of  Medical  Service 
on  August  14,  was  later  attached  to  Overseas  Base  Hospital 
No.  154  and  was  awaiting  orders  for  foreign  service  when  hos- 
tilities ceased,  and  on  December  2  was  ordered  to  resume  his 
duties  at  Camp  Upton. 


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He  has  contributed  about  twenty-five  articles  on  medical  sub- 
jects in  various  medical  journals  and  textbooks.  Among  recent 
works  published  are  the  chapters  on  "Diseases  of  the  Spleen," 
in  Osier's  "Modern  Medicine,"  first  edition,  1908;  second  edition, 
191 5.  Among  the  medical  societies  to  which  he  belongs  are  the 
American  Association  of  Pathologists  and  Bacteriologists,  Amer- 
ican Medical  Association,  New  York  State  Medical  Society,  Erie 
County  Medical  Society,  and  the  Buffalo  Academy  of  Medicine. 

He  is  an  Independent  in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Buffalo. 

He  was  married  October  23,  1900,  in  New  York  City,  to  Kate 
Parker,  daughter  of  Hervey  W.  Lathrop,  deceased,  formerly 
president  of  the  Cotton  Exchange  of  Savannah,  and  Anna 
(Kinsley)  Lathrop.  They  have  had  three  children,  all  born  in 
Buffalo:  Kate  Lathrop,  born  October  9,  1901,  and  died  October 
23,  1901 ;  Mary  Phillips,  born  December  20,  1903,  and  Kate 
Lathrop,  born  August  1,  1908.  They  are  attending  the  Frank- 
lin School,  Buffalo. 


*William  James  McKenna 

Died  December  18,  1896 

William  J.  McKenna,  the 
son  of  Francis  McKenna,  was 
born  February  9,  1870,  in 
Westboro,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  attended  the  high 
school.  In  both  Junior  and 
Senior  years  he  received  a 
first  dispute  appointment. 

After  graduation  he  entered 
Harvard  Medical  School, 
where  he  remained  until  the 
spring  of  1895,  when  he  went 
to  Colorado  because  of  ill 
health.  The  change  did  not 
benefit  him,  so  in  July,  1896, 
he  returned  to  Westboro, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  died 
of  tuberculosis,  December  18, 
1896. 


WILLIAM    J.    MC  KENNA 


He  was  unmarried. 


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Stuart  McKnight 

With  Charles  Chreste  &  Company,  real  estate,  431  West  Jefferson  Street, 
Louisville,  Kentucky 

Residence,  1518  Third  Avenue,  Louisville,  Kentucky 

McKnight  is  a  son  of  William  Henry  and  Attia  (Porter) 
McKnight,  who  were  married  December  1,  1869,  and  had  four 
other    children:     Henry    Porter    McKnight,    Ph.B.    Yale    1890; 


STUART    MC  KNIGHT 


Elizabeth  (died  January  3,  1904,  in  Rochester,  New  York)  ; 
Viola  (McKnight)  Miller,  and  Lucille  Lowry  (McKnight) 
Bowmen  The  father  (born  August  4,  1826,  near  Bedford, 
Indiana;  died  December  17,  1916,  in  Louisville,  Kentucky)  was 
the  son  of  Samuel  Stuart  McKnight,  who  was  born  in  1772, 
near  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania,  his  parents  having  emigrated  from 
Scotland.  He  pursued  his  studies  under  the  direction  of  his 
father,  a  teacher,  and  then  attended  the  Bedford  (Indiana) 
Seminary.  In  1853  ne  entered  the  drygoods  business  in  New 
Albany,  Indiana,  under  the  name  of  McKnight  &  Webber;  in 
1863  the  firm  established  a  branch  house  on  the  opposite  side  of 
the  Ohio  River,  at  Louisville,  and  Mr.  McKnight,  after  the  dis- 


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solution  of  the  partnership  the  same  year,  continued  the  new 
store,  confining  the  business  to  carpets.  Mrs.  McKnight,  who 
was  born  February  27,  1847,  m  Corydon,  Indiana,  and  died 
September  5,  1917,  in  Louisville,  was  the  daughter  of  William 
A.  Porter.  His  parents  came  from  Omagh,  Ireland ;  after  com- 
pleting his  education  at  Miami  University,  Oxford,  Ohio,  he 
taught  in  the  Corydon  School.  His  daughter  was  a  graduate 
of  Glendale  Female  College,  Glendale,  Ohio. 

Stuart  McKnight  was  born  December  22,  1871,  in  Louisville, 
and  attended  J.  W.  Chenault's  private  school  in  that  city. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Louisville  in  1895 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Kentucky  Bar  in  January,  1896,  and  to  the  firm  of  W.  H. 
McKnight  Sons  &  Company,  carpet  dealers,  having  been 
associated  with  this  company  since  1893.  In  1902,  upon  the 
incorporation  of  this  firm  he  was  elected  secretary  and  in  1908 
treasurer.  In  191 1,  owing  to  his  ill  health,  it  became  necessary 
to  close  out  the  business  and  he  then  engaged  in  the  real  estate 
and  insurance  business,  and  in  1913  was  elected  president  of  the 
Buy  and  Sell  Company,  real  estate.  Since  March  1,  1918,  he  has 
also  been  associated  with  Charles  Chreste  &  Company,  real 
estate,  in  Louisville. 

For  several  years  he  served  as  secretary  of  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  Kentucky.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church. 

He  has  not  married. 

He  writes :  "Am  planning  to  purchase  a  small  place  in  the 
country  and  move  into  it  some  time  next  year. 

"Am  at  present  seeking  a  Government  position  in  the  Internal 
Revenue  Office  in  Louisville,  as  I  am  anxious  to  serve  my  country 
in  these  strenuous  days  of  war  and  have  much  time  to  devote 
to  Government  service. 

"Am  my  own  chauffeur  and  stenographer." 


William  Maffitt 

Vice-president  of  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company,  St.  Louis,  Missouri 

Residence,  4409  West  Pine  Boulevard,  St.  Louis,  Missouri 

Maffitt    is    a    son    of    Pierre    Chouteau    and    Mary    Isabella 
(Skinker)  Maffitt,  who  were  married  August  26,  1868,  and  had 


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four  other  children:  Thomas  Skinker  Maffitt,  B.A.  Yale  1899; 
Julia  Chouteau  (Maffitt)  Keiser;  Jane  Maffitt  (died  April  10, 
1890),  and  Pierre  Chouteau  Maffitt,  Jr.  (died  July  25,  1883). 
Mr.  Maffitt  was  born  September  3,  1845,  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
and  attended  Washington 
University.  He  was  vice- 
president  of  the  Iron  Moun- 
tain (Mining)  Company  from 
1870  to  1881,  and  president  of 
the  Missouri  Railroad  Com- 
pany until  1897  when  he  re- 
tired from  active  business. 
His  first  American  ancestor 
came  from  England  to  Upper 
Norfolk,  Virginia,  in  1635 ; 
his  father  was  a  combination 
of  Scotch-Irish  and  English; 
his  mother  was  French.  Mrs. 
Maffitt  was  born  April  17, 
1847,  m  St.  Louis,  and  is  of 
English,  Welsh,  and  Irish  an- 
cestry; the  first  one  came  to 
Virginia  from  England  in 
1620. 

William    Maffitt   was    born 
August  15,  1869,  in  St.  Louis, 

and  was  prepared  at  Smith  Academy  in  that  city  and  at  the 
Holderness  School,  Plymouth,  New  Hampshire.  In  college  he 
was  president  of  the  University  Football  Association  and  a  mem- 
ber of  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Wolf's  Head. 

He  was  engaged  in  street  railroad  work  in  St.  Louis  for  one 
year  and  was  a  superintendent  in  the  Union  Stock  Yards  for 
two  years.  In  1900  he  became  assistant  treasurer  of  the  Mer- 
cantile Trust  Company,  in  1905  treasurer,  and  in  1908  vice- 
president.  The  following  year  he  was  elected  to  the  same 
office  in  the  Mercantile  National  Bank  which,  on  February  5, 
1918,  was  absorbed  by  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company.  He  is 
also  a  director  and  officer  in  several  other  corporations,  but  is 
not  active. 

In  politics  he  is  Independent,  with  Democratic  leanings.  He 
is  treasurer  and  a  director  of  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  and  a  vestry- 
man in  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Communion  (Episcopal). 


WILLIAM    MAFFITT 


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He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis,  Racquet,  Country,  and  Noon- 
day clubs  of  St.  Louis,  the  University  of  New  York,  Graduates 
of  New  Haven,  and  Tuna  of  Avalon,  Santa  Catalina  Island, 
California.  In  191 1  and  1912  he  was  president  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  St.  Louis. 

He  was  married  January  28,  1902,  in  St.  Louis,  to  Ellen 
Humphreys,  daughter  of  Julius  Sylvester  Walsh,  chairman  of 
the  Board  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trust  Company,  St.  Louis, 
and  Josephine  (Dickson)  Walsh.  They  have  had  two  boys,  both 
of  whom  died  in  infancy. 


ARTHUR   J.    MARTIN 


Arthur  James  Martin 

Partner  in  the  firm  of  Maguire  &  Martin,  lawyers,  200 
West  Seventy-second  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  154  Jewett  Avenue,  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey 

Martin  is  a  son  of  James  Frazer  and  Sarah  (Northrup) 
Martin,  who  were  married  November  22,  1855,  and  had  two 
other  children,  daughters:  Margaret  (Martin)  Roe  and  Mary 
(Martin)    Burckett.     The    father    (born   January    II,    1836,    in 


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Wantage  Township,  New  Jersey,  and  died  there  December  16, 
1 891)  was  a  flour  and  feed  merchant  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
from  1856  to  1868,  when  he  returned  to  his  native  town  where 
he  resided  the  rest  of  his  life  and  was  engaged  in  farming. 
He  was  a  descendant  of  John  Martin,  born  in  1620  at  Devon- 
shire, England,  who  settled  in  1634  in  the  plantation  of  Dover  on 
the  Piscataway  River,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  under  the 
patronage  of  Gorges  and  Mason  of  the  Plymouth  Colony;  in 
1666  he  removed  his  family  to  what  was  later  named  Piscataway, 
New  Jersey,  after  sixty  families  had  removed  there  from  Dover 
and  he,  with  two  others,  had  received  a  grant  of  the  60,000  acres 
of  that  settlement ;  he  died  there  in  1685.  The  mother  (born 
January  21,  1835,  in  Wantage  Township  and  died  there  Novem- 
ber 5,  1901)  was  a  descendant  of  Joseph  Northrup,  born  in  York- 
shire, England,  who  was  one  of  the  Eaton  and  Davenport  Com- 
pany on  the  ship  Hester  and  Martha  in  1637,  wno  settled  at  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  in  1638. 

Arthur  J.  Martin  was  born  October  23,  1872,  in  Wantage 
Township,  New  Jersey,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  a  private 
school.  He  received  a  first  dispute  Junior  and  a  dissertation 
Senior  appointment. 

He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  the  New  York  Law  School 
in  1895  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  1896,  since 
which  time  he  has  practiced  in  New  York  City.  He  is  now  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Maguire  &  Martin. 

He  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Summit  Avenue 
Baptist  Church  of  Jersey  City.  He  belongs  to  the  Hudson 
County  University  Club. 

He  was  married  April  26,  191  o,  in  Jersey  City,  to  Emily  E., 
daughter  of  Louis  Jones  Apgar,  merchant  and  member  of  the 
New  York  Stock  Exchange,  and  Sarah  Peck  (Patterson)  Apgar. 
They  have  one  son:  Arthur  James,  Jr.,  born  November  21,  191 1. 


*George  Greene  Martin 

Died  February  24,  1907 

George  G.  Martin,  the  son  of  George  Martin,  a  grain  mer- 
chant, and  Lorinda  Isabella  (Greene)  Martin,  was  born  February 
22,  1 87 1,  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  but  in  early  life  moved 
to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  prepared  for  Yale  at  Smith 


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Academy.  In  college  he  received  a  second  dispute  appointment, 
both  as  a  Junior  and  at  Commencement  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Senior  Promenade  Committee,  the  University  Club,  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a 
year  with  the  National  Bank 
of  Commerce  in  St.  Louis, 
and  the  next  year  in  the 
employ  of  the  United  States 
Internal  Revenue  Department. 
He  was  also  a  student  at  the 
St.  Louis  Law  School,  1894- 
95.  In  1895  he  entered  the 
service  of  the  American  Tele- 
phone and  Telegraph  Comj 
pany  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana ; 
was  manager  of  this  com- 
pany's long-distance  tele- 
phone system  at  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  from  1895  to  1899; 
and  was  appointed  superin- 
tendent of  the  company's 
Arkansas  and  Texas  division, 
located  at  Little  Rock,  Arkan- 
sas, in  October,  1899,  a  posi- 
tion which  ill  health  forced 
him  to  resign  in  1906.  He  died  of  tuberculosis  in  Webster 
Groves,  a  suburb  of  St.  Louis,  February  24,  1907. 
He  was  unmarried. 


GEORGE    G.    MARTIN 


Walter  Rumsey  Marvin 

Vice-president  of  the  National  Biscuit  Company,  409 
West  Fifteenth  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  701  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Our  classmate's  father,  Sylvester  Stephen  Marvin,  was  born 
November  18,  1841,  in  Monroe  County,  New  York,  and  after  two 
years  in  the  Union  Army  conducted  the  business  of  S.  S.  Marvin 
&  Company  (1863- 1898),  since  which  time  he  has  been  a  director 
of  the  National  Biscuit  Company.     He  is  also  a  director  of  the 


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299 


Union  National  Bank  of  Philadelphia.  On  September  21,  1870, 
he  married  Matilda  Earle  Rumsey,  and  had  two  sons,  Walter  and 
Earle  R.  Marvin,  Yale  £^-'96  S.  He  was  married  a  second  time 
May  27,  1897,  to  Edith,  daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Margaret 
(Rumsey)  Bonnett.  Walter's  mother  was  born  February  7, 
1847,  m  Eastchester,  New  York,  and  died  January  24,  1895,  in 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania.  Her  father's  ancestors  came  from 
England  and  settled  on  Long  Island ;  her  mother's  from  England 
and  Holland  and  settled  in  New  York  City.  The  first  Marvin 
ancestor  in  this  country  was  Matthew,  who  came  from  England 
and  settled  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  in  1635. 

Walter  Marvin  was  born  August  7,  1872,  in  Allegheny,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  was  prepared  at  Shady  Side  Academy,  Pittsburgh. 
In  college  he  received  dispute  appointments  and  was  a  member  of 
the  University  Club  and  Psi  Upsilon.  Upon  its  formation  he 
was  elected  to  the  Elihu  Club. 


WALTER    R.    MARVIN 


He  has  been  connected  with  the  National  Biscuit  Company  or 
its  predecessors  since  graduation,  and  now  holds  the  position  of 
vice-president.  He  holds  the  same  office  in  the  Pennsylvania 
Chocolate  Company. 


3oo  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

He  is  an  Independent  Republican.  He  is  a  director  of  the  New 
Rochelle  Hospital  and  junior  warden  of  Trinity  Church,  New 
Rochelle.  From  1901  to  1906  he  was  a  private  in  Squadron  A, 
New  York  National  Guard.  He  belongs  to  the  Yale  Club  of 
New  York  and  to  the  Country  Club  of  Westchester. 

He  was  married  June  13,  1899,  at  Blue  Ridge  Summit,  Penn- 
sylvania, to  Julia  Armstrong,  daughter  of  William  Armstrong 
Collins,  a  journalist,  and  Eliza  Leet  (Shields)  Collins.  They 
have  two  children:  Walter  Rumsey,  Jr.,  born  August  15,  1900, 
who  is  attending  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  New  Hampshire, 
and  Judith  Huntington,  born  October  19,  1903,  who  is  attending 
Miss  Spence's  School,  New  York. 

Marvin  writes :  "Possibly  the  two  most  important  ideas  which 
some  of  us  took  away  from  college  were  the  watchword  of 
Socrates,  'awcfrpoavvr],'  and  the  fact  that  the  world  is  so  full  of  a 
number  of  things.  The  importance  of  the  first  idea  is  universally 
recognized.  It  has  led  me  to  hold  in  check  an  inherited  ten- 
dency toward  embonpoint,  to  live  outdoors  as  much  as  possible,  to 
walk,  to  ride  horseback,  to  play  tennis  and  golf,  sail  a  boat,  shoot 
a  gun;  to  take  part  in  various  activities  of  a  public  or  semi- 
public  nature  'not  gainful.'  The  second  idea  has  been  the  open 
sesame  to  some  of  the  most  delightful  experiences  imaginable. 
Fortunately  for  us,  the  rising  tide  of  philistinism,  now  happily 
in  its  ebb,  had  not  reached  its  flood  in  1893,  and  many  men  took 
home  with  them  a  taste  for  knowledge  for  its  own  sake,  or  for 
the  fun  of  knowing  things  and  a  power  to  see,  even  if  through 
a  glass  darkly,  the  possibility  of  continuing  one's  education 
through  the  coming  years.  Happy  are  those  men  who  brought 
this  vision  away  with  them.  Those  fellows  who  collect  books, 
prints,  who  have  cultivated  their  taste  for  music,  who  have 
studied  the  history  of  peoples  and  of  their  arts,  and  possibly  most 
of  all  those  who  lay  out  flower  gardens  in  color  schemes  in  which 
work,  with  critical  eye  and  just  sense  of  proportion,  friend  wife 
collaborates,  these  I  say  are  realizing  the  fruits  of  their  zest  for 
study  acquired  at  college.  These  are  the  men  who  discovered 
that  the  world  is  so  full  of  a  number  of  things.  It  is  to  be 
regretted  that  in  addition  to  a  'required'  knowledge  of  Kant, 
there  was  not  also  required  at  least  a  bowing  acquaintance  with 
'the  late  M.  Angelo'  and  some  of  his  distinguished  contempo- 
raries. Had  we  been  taught  that  he  was  a  great  scientist,  engi- 
neer, and  architect,  some  of  us  might  have  been  more  interested 


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in  the  painter  of  the  Sistine  Chapel.  But  that  would  have  been 
asking  a  great  deal,  or  as  we  are  supposed  to  say  nowadays,  a 
large  order. 

"Those  of  us  who  were  fortunate  enough  to  have  visited 
Europe  before  the  storm  broke  remember  the  thrills  we  expe- 
rienced in  finding  that  the  things  we  had  read  about  were  real 
and  not  dreams,  and  we  learned  then  by  personal  experience 
what  Berensen  meant  when  he  spoke  of  a  'sense  of  well-being, 
when  one  beheld  a  masterpiece.  Of  the  other  things  that  have 
made  life  livable  during  twenty-five  years,  the  gradual  acquire- 
ment of  a  degree  of  economic  independence,  watching  one's 
children  grow  and  develop,  most  of  us,  fortunately,  have 
experienced. 

"Whatever  the  future  may  have  in  store  for  us  and  our 
beloved  country,  whatever  valleys  of  shadow  we  may  be  called 
upon  to  pass  through,  we  shall  always  have  the  solace  of  the 
tranquil  pleasures  of  the  mind  which  neither  moth  nor  rust  doth 
corrupt,  and  which  thieves  do  not  break  through  nor  steal,  as  men 
in  all  ages  have  found  out  before  us." 


Edward  Thomson  Mathison 

Rector  of  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church,  Rockville,  Connecticut 

Mathison  is  a  son  of  Robert  Lauder  and  Catherine  Susan 
(Roberts)  Mathison,  who  were  married  June  11,  1862,  and  had 
six  other  children:  Robert  Nash  Mathison  (died  September  7, 
1878)  ;  Charlotte  Elizabeth  (born  and  died  July  12,  1865)  ;  Sarah 
Matilda  Ames  (Mathison)  Eliot  (died  September  7,  191 5) ; 
Frederic  Huntington  Mathison,  Yale  '96  (died  August  24,  1906)  ; 
Nellie  Roberts  (Mathison)  Geren,  and  Isabella  Selwyn  (Mathi- 
son) Stewart,  Mount  Holyoke  '03.  The  father  (born  June  20, 
1838,  in  Middletown,  Connecticut)  was  graduated  at  Wesleyan 
University  in  i860  and  was  a  Methodist  itinerant  minister.  His 
parents  were  Robert  Mathison,  B.A.  Wesleyan  1840,  M.D.  New 
York  University  1848,  a  druggist,  and  Rebecca  Desborough. 
Peter  Disbro,  from  whom  his  mother  was  descended,  settled  in 
Mamaroneck,  New  York,  in  1668.  Catherine  (Roberts)  Mathi- 
son (born  May  17,  1842,  in  Granby,  Connecticut;  died  May  3, 
1917,  in  Guilford,  Connecticut)  was  the  daughter  of  John  Eno 


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Roberts,  a  merchant,  and  Deborah  (Blakeslee)  Roberts.  Mrs. 
Mathison's  father  fought  in  the  Mexican  War  and  her  grand- 
father and  great-grandfather  in  the  Revolution.  Her  grand- 
father was  mustered  out  of  service  at  the  close  of  the  war, — the 
youngest  soldier  from  the  state  of  Connecticut. 


EDWARD   T.    MATHISON 


Edward  T.  Mathison  was  born  June  21,  1870,  in  Old  Town, 
Maine,  and  was  prepared  at  Guilford  Institute  and  attended 
Washington  and  Jefferson  College  before  entering  Yale.  He 
received  a  first  dispute  Senior  appointment  in  college. 

Following  his  graduation  from  Yale  he  entered  the  Berkeley 
Divinity  School,  Middletown,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1895, 
and  ordained  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  He  was  rector 
at  Marbledale,  Connecticut,  1895-1896;  at  Ansonia,  1896-1900, 
and  of  St.  Michael's  Church,  Brattleboro,  Vermont,  1900-1907. 
In  April,  1907,  he  moved  to  Massillon,  Ohio,  to  become  rector 
of  St.  Timothy's  Church,  and  in  October,  1910,  went  to  Grace 
Church,  Oak  Park,  Illinois,  the  second  largest  Episcopal  church  in 
the  state.  On  March  31,  191 3,  he  was  elected  associate  rector  of 
Shattuck  School,  Faribault,   Minnesota,  assuming  his  duties  on 


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August  1.  He  resigned  in  September,  1914,  and  since  September, 
191 5,  has  been  rector  of  St.  John's  Church,  Rockville,  Con- 
necticut. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Muni- 
cipal Christmas  Tree  Association,  1916  and  1917,  president  of  the 
municipal  playgrounds  of  Rockville  in  191 7,  and  has  served  as 
chairman  of  the  Rockville  War  Bureau  since  19 17.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  second  Red  Cross  War  Fund  drive  for  Tolland 
County. 

He  is  secretary  of  Fayette  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons. 

He  was  married  February  16,  1898,  in  Ansonia,  Connecticut, 
to  Elizabeth  Hull,  daughter  of  Frederic  Erastus  Colburn,  a  real 
estate  dealer,  and  Flora  Ann  (Smith)  Colburn.  They  have 
five  children  :  Flora  Annette,  born  December  24,  1898;  Catharine, 
born  January  21,  1900;  Elizabeth,  born  June  16,  1901 ;  Robert 
Edward,  born  January  26,  1903,  and  Frederic  Huntington,  born 
April  23,  1907. 


Alfred  Kindred  Merritt 

Registrar  of  Yale  College 

Office,  Connecticut  Hall 

Residence,  145  Canner  Street,  New  Haven,  Connecticut 

Merritt  is  a  son  of  Munson  Lyman  and  Cornelia  Jane  (Kin- 
dred) Merritt,  who  were  married  in  1861,  and  had  four  other 
children:  Minnie  Eunice  (died  in  1903)  ;  Nellie  Katharine  (Mrs, 
B.  A.  Strawbridge)  ;  Florene  Greenwood,  and  George  Munson 
Merritt.  The  two  daughters  who  are  living  are  graduates  of  the 
Minnesota  State  Normal  School.  Munson  L.  Merritt  (born 
April  10,  1837,  in  Morris  County,  New  Jersey;  died  in  1896  in 
Dover,  New  Jersey)  was  a  building  contractor  who  spent  most  of 
his  life  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  and  Brainerd,  Minnesota.  Mrs. 
Merritt  was  born  February  3,  1842,  in  Cliffwood  Valley,  New 
Jersey,  and  died  December  19,  1906,  in  Brainerd,  Minnesota. 
Her  father  was  descended  from  a  French  soldier  who  came  with 
Lafayette  to  fight  in  the  Revolution ;  her  mother  was  of  English 
ancestry. 

Alfred  K.  Merritt  was  born  November  25,  1866,  in  Weldon, 
New  Jersey,  and  was  prepared  at  Shattuck  School,  Faribault, 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Minnesota.  He  was  a  substitute  on  the  Freshman  Baseball 
Team,  was  the  Waterman  Scholar  in  Junior  year,  received  an 
oration  Senior  appointment,  a  second  TenEyck  Prize,  and  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Wolf's 
Head. 


ALFRED    K.    MERRITT 


He  has  served  as  registrar  of  Yale  College  since  1893. 

In  politics  a  Republican,  he  acknowledges  that  he  "roots"  for 
Wilson. 

He  is  a  member  of  Trinity  Methodist  Church.  He  belongs  to 
the  Graduates  Club  and  to  the  New  Haven  Country  Club. 

He  was  married  January  24,  1904,  in  New  York  City,  to  Nettie 
L.,  daughter  of  Rufus  Bartlett  and  Henrietta  Grace  (Monson) 
Hoyt.  They  have  had  one  son,  Alfred  Kindred,  Jr.,  born  Decem- 
ber 30,  1904,  in  New  Haven,  and  died  June  1 1,  1918,  in  New 
Haven. 

Merritt  writes :  "During  the  season  golf  is  my  chief  recrea- 
tion ;  varied  this  year  for  several  weeks  by  sawing  good  hickory 
logs  into  stove  wood,  to  help  save  the  coal — which  we  could  not 
get." 


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Charles  William  Mills 

President  of  the  Climax  Coal  Company,  1210  Land  Title  Building, 

Philadelphia,   Pennsylvania,  and  904  Market   Street, 

Wilmington,  Delaware 

Residence,  605  Phil-Ellena  Street,  Germantown,  Pennsylvania 

Mills  is  the  son  of  William  B.  and  Alice  O.  (Havens)  Mills. 
His  grandfather  was  one  of  three  brothers  who  came  to  New 
England  from  Kent  County,  England,  and  went  with  the  western 
movement  from  Connecticut  to  central  New  York  State,  settling 
in  Cayuga  County.  W.  B.  Mills  (born  August  26,  1836,  in 
Memphis,  New  York;  died  November  30,  1890,  in  Denver, 
Colorado)  attended  Syracuse  University,  afterwards  studied  law 
and  for  many  years  was  judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  at  Auburn, 
New  York.     In  1872  he  moved  to  Colorado  and  practiced  law  in 


CHARLES    W.    MILLS 


Denver  until  his  death.  Mrs.  Mills  (born  in  Weedsport,  New 
York,  October  21,  1842;  died  November  20,  1900)  was  the 
daughter  of  Dexter  C.  and  Mary  Purple  Havens,  and  sister  of 
James  S.  Havens,  B.A.  Yale  1884. 


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Charles  W.  Mills  was  born  August  27,  1870,  in  Westport, 
New  York,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Harrington  School,  West- 
chester, New  York.  In  college  he  played  on  the  Freshman  Foot- 
ball Team  and  rowed  on  the  Freshman  Crew;  was  a  substitute 
on  the  University  Football  Team  in  Sophomore  and  Junior  years, 
a  substitute  on  the  University  Crew  in  Sophomore  year,  a  Class 
Historian,  and  a  member  of  the  Yale  Union,  the  University  Club, 
and  Psi  Upsilon. 

From  1893  to  1898  he  was  engaged  in  banking  and  manufac- 
turing in  Denver,  Colorado,  and  then  for  four  years  was  special 
agent  for  the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company, 
in  January,  1901,  removing  to  Alameda,  California.  In  Novem- 
ber, 1902,  he  became  manager  for  California  of  the  Union 
Central  Life  Insurance  Company  of  San  Francisco,  but  in  1904 
went  to  New  York  City  as  inspector  of  agencies  for  the  Equitable 
Life  Assurance  Society  of  New  York.  The  next  year  he  was 
general  agent  for  greater  New  York  of  the  Union  Central 
Life  Insurance  Company.  In  1906,  after  several  months  in 
France  and  Belgium  studying  coal  mines  and  explosives, 
he  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  blast  powder  at  Clearfield, 
Pennsylvania,  and  was  seriously  injured  in  an  explosion  of  the 
powder  mill.  After  his  recovery  he  was  appointed  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Bituminous  Coal  Operators'  Association  of  Cen- 
tral Pennsylvania  at  Clearfield,  in  1907  the  offices  being  moved 
to  Philadelphia.  In  January,  191 1,  he  resigned  to  become  iden- 
tified with  the  Climax  Coal  Company,  which  operates  two  mines 
in  Central  Pennsylvania,  the  office  headquarters  being  in  Philadel- 
phia. In  1914  he  was  elected  president  and  since  191 5  he  has 
devoted  his  entire  time  to  the  management  of  this  company  and 
other  interests.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Fostoria  Oil  Company, 
the  United  Oil  and  Fuel  Company,  and  director  and  general 
manager  of  the  Ball  Grain  Explosives  Company  of  Wilmington, 
Delaware. 

In  June,  1914,  he  was  appointed  by  the  Secretary  of  Labor  as  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Conciliators  which  settled  a  serious 
strike  in  the  Kanawha  Coal  Fields  in  West  Virginia,  and  one  of 
the  employees  of  the  Westinghouse  Company,  Pittsburgh.  On 
appointment  by  President  Wilson  in  December,  191 4,  he  acted  for 
the  Government  in  an  effort  to  prevent  further  conflict  between 
the  coal  operators  and  miners  in  Colorado.  On  October  9,  1915* 
the  Secretary  of  Labor  named  him  as  federal  conciliator  to  adjust 


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the  strike  of  machinists  in  jobbing  shops  in  Pittsburgh,  and  on 
July  31,  1916,  member  of  the  commission  to  adjust  questions  in 
the  dispute  between  the  New  York  garment  workers  and  their 
employers. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

He  was  married  December  6,  1893,  in  Stamford,  Connecticut, 
to  Elizabeth  Davenport,  daughter  of  Charles  Burrall,  of  Stam- 
ford, Connecticut.  They  have  two  daughters  :  Louise  Ritch,  born 
February  27,  1895,  and  Mary  Havens,  born  May  10,  1904. 


GEORGE  E.    MILLS 


George  Edward  Mills 

Lawyer,  714-715  Mercantile  Library  Building,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Residence,  2472  Observatory  Road,  Hyde  Park,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Mills  is  a  son  of  Edward  and  Henrietta  (Flinn)  Mills,  who 
were  married  January  20,  1869,  and  had  two  other  children, 
daughters:  Alice  (Mills)  Cadwallader  and  Clara  (Mills)  Rey- 
nolds. The  father  (born  November  28,  1837,  m  Norwood,  Ohio) 
is  a  retired  farmer.  For  fourteen  years  he  served  on  the  School 
Board  of  Sharpsburg,  Ohio,  and  was  the  first  president  of  the 


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Norwood  National  Bank.  He  is  of  English  ancestry ;  his  grand- 
father, Abner  Mills,  lived  in  Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey,  and 
removed  to  Ohio  in  1798,  settling  in  a  place  near  Cincinnati 
now  known  as  Norwood,  formerly  Sharpsburg.  Mrs.  Mills  was 
born  in  Indian  Hill,  Ohio,  on  November  29,  1841. 

George  E.  Mills  was  born  October  23,  1869,  m  Norwood,  and 
was  prepared  at  the  Woodward  High  and  Franklin  Schools  in 
Cincinnati.  He  received  a  dissertation  Junior  and  an  oration 
Senior  appointment,  won  the  Scott  Prize  in  French  in  1893,  and 
was  a  member  of  Zeta  Psi. 

In  June,  1895,  he  was  graduated  from  the  Cincinnati  Law 
School  with  honors  and  was  admitted  to  the  Ohio  Bar.  He  has 
since  practiced  in  Cincinnati,  from  February,  1901,  to  March, 
1905,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Coffey,  Mallon,  Mills  & 
Vordenberg.  For  one  year  he  served  as  first  vice-president  of 
the  Norwood  Savings  Bank  &  Trust  Company,  and  since  1907 
he  has  been  a  director  of  the  Norwood  National  Bank. 

He  is  a  Democrat.  From  1895  to  1901  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Sewers,  and,  from  1901  to  1905, 
Mayor  of  Norwood.  He  was  treasurer  of  the  Democratic  Cam- 
paign Committee,  Hamilton  County,  Ohio,  in  1902,  and  a  can- 
didate for  presidential  elector  in  1904.  He  is  a  permanent 
member  of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board  to  County  Draft  Board 
No.  1,  Hamilton  County,  Ohio;  a  four-minute  man  serving  under 
the  direction  of  the  Committee  on  Public  Information,  and  a 
member  of  the  Joint  Defense  Council,  Red  Cross  Legal  Sub- 
Committee  for  Hamilton  County,  Ohio. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Norwood  Presbyterian  Church  and 
from  1895  to  1900  was  treasurer.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati Literary  Club  from  1895  to  191 5,  and  a  director  of  the 
Duckworth  Democratic  Club  (1902)  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Hyde  Park  Business  Men's  Club,  Hyde  Park  Masonic  Club,  Nor- 
wood Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.;  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  Syrian  Temple, 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  Kirkup  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  Yale, 
University,  and  Cincinnati  Golf  clubs. 

He  was  married  October  19,  1904,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  to  Mar- 
cia  Olive,  daughter  of  N.  Ashley  Lloyd,  a  manufacturing  phar- 
macist, and  Olive  (Gardner)  Lloyd.  Mrs.  Mills  attended 
Wellesley  College  for  one  year.  Their  children  are :  May  Lloyd, 
born  December  28,  1905 ;  Edward  Lloyd,  born  May  19,  1907,  and 
Olive  Lloyd,  born  December  30,  191 2. 


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Franklin  Arthur.  Moore 

55  Edmund  Place,  Detroit, 
Michigan 

Franklin  A.  Moore  was 
born  September  16,  1870,  in 
Detroit,  Michigan.  He  was 
prepared  in  Worcester,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover.  In  col- 
lege he  received  a  colloquy 
Junior  appointment. 

After  graduation  he  trav- 
eled around  the  world  and 
spent  the  year  1895-96  in 
Europe.  He  was  president 
of  the  Merchants'  Truck 
Company,  Detroit,  in  1897-98. 
So  far  as  known  he  has  not 
since  been  connected  with  any 
company. 


FRANKLIN    A.    MOORE 


John  Stanley  Moore 

Assistant  to  the  Director,  War  Board  of  the  American  Electric  Railway 
Association,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Residence,  915  James  Street,  Syracuse,  New  York 

Moore  is  a  son  of  Jerome  B.  and  Elizabeth  (Huyck)  Moore, 
who  were  married  June  12,  1865,  and  had  one  other  son,  Ernest 
C.  Moore,  ex-'g6.  The  father  (born  April  28,  1830,  in  Rensselaer-' 
ville,  New  York;  died  October  17,  1891,  in  Syracuse,  New  York) 
was  engaged  in  the  wholesale  drug  business  in  Syracuse  after 
1866.  He  was  of  English  ancestry.  The  mother  (born  July  8, 
1840,  in  Rensselaerville)  is  of  Dutch  ancestry;  she  attended 
Ontario  Female  Seminary  at  Canandaigua,  New  York. 

John  S.  Moore  was  born  January  16,  1870,  in  Syracuse,  New 
York,  and  was  prepared  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Penn- 
sylvania. He  was  editor  of  the  C  our  ant,  served  on  the  Ivy  Com- 
mittee, and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  He  Boule,  Psi 
Upsilon,  and  Wolf's  Head. 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


The  year  after  graduation  he  spent  in  Europe.  From  1894  to 
1898  he  was  with  Sanderson  Brothers  Steel  Company  in  Syra- 
cuse, and  from  1898  to  1900  he  was  ranching  in  Texas.  During 
1900  he  was  secretary  of  the  National  Mercantile  Agency,  New 

York  City.  From  1900  to 
1909  he  was  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  Skaneateles,  New  York, 
and  during  this  time  was 
water  inspector  of  Skaneat- 
eles Lake  and  a  trustee  of  the 
School  of  Onondaga  County. 
In  1909  he  was  appointed 
general  passenger  agent  of 
the  Rochester,  Syracuse  & 
Eastern  (Electric)  Railway: 
the  Auburn  &  Syracuse  Elec- 
tric Railway;  the  Syracuse, 
Lake  Shore  &  Northern 
(Electric)  Railway;  the  Syra- 
cuse &  South  Bay  Electric 
Railway,  and  the  Auburn  & 
Northern  Electric  Railway, 
with  headquarters  in  Syra- 
cuse. 

In  191 5  he  was  appointed 
military  secretary  to  Governor 
Whitman  and  now  holds  the  commission  of  Major  in  the  reserve 
list  of  the  New  York  National  Guard.  In  August,  191 7,  he 
served  as  executive  secretary  to  District  Draft  Board  No.  3,  New 
York  State ;  in  November  was  commissioned  Lieutenant  Colonel, 
3d  Regiment,  New  York  Guard,  and  in  December  went  to  Wash- 
ington as  assistant  to  the  director  of  the  War  Board  of  the 
American  Electric  Railway  Association  and  as  an  assistant  to  the 
Fuel  Administrator. 

He  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church. 

He  has  not  married. 


J.    STANLEY    MOORE 


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John  Hill  Morgan 

Partner  in  the  firm  of  Rumsey  &  Morgan,  20  Exchange  Place,  New  York 
City,  and  166  Montague  Street,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

Residence,  14  Monroe  Place,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

Morgan's  parents,  who  were  married  June  4,  1866,  had  one 
other  son,  Lancaster  Morgan,  Ph.B.  Columbia  1888.  James  Lan- 
caster Morgan,  the  father  (born  May  20,  1845,  in  New  York 
City),  was  seventh  in  descent  from  Charles  Morgan,  who  pur- 
chased a  house  in  New  Amsterdam  April  30,  1652,  from  Francis 
Doughty,  the  original  patentee,  on  what  is  now  Bowling  Green. 
Charles  Morgan  was  a  Welshman  and  his  house  is  shown  on  the 
Costello  plan  of  New  Amsterdam  as  Lot  5  in  Block  H,  known  as 
Stuyvesant's  Hoeck.  Mr.  Morgan  was  a  partner  in  the  James  L. 
Morgan  Company  from  1866  to  1898  when  it  was  absorbed  by 


JOHN    H.    MORGAN 


the  General  Chemical  Company,  of  which  he  was  treasurer  until 
1914.  He  is  now  vice-president  and  a  director  as  well  as  a  direc- 
tor of  several  banks.  For  forty  years  (1870-1910)  he  was  a 
director  of  the  Market  &  Fulton  Bank.     His  wife,  Alice  M.  Hill 


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(born  September  10,  1845,  in  Albany,  New  York),  is  fourth  in 
descent  from  John  Hill  of  Philadelphia,  a  tobacco  factor. 

John  Hill  Morgan  was  l>orn  June  30,  1870,  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  and  was  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  New 
Hampshire.  He  was  an  editor  and  business  manager  of  the 
Record,  Class  Historian,  and  a  member  of  the  University  Club, 
Psi  Upsilon,  and  Wolf's  Head. 

Previous  publications  of  the  Class  have  related  in  detail  Mor- 
gan's work  to  1914.  In  1917  Governor  Whitman  offered  him  an 
appointment  as  Judge  of  the  County  Court  to  succeed  Mayor 
John  F.  Hylan,  but  he  preferred  to  continue  in  active  practice  and 
in  December,  191 7,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  David  Rum- 
sey,  William  A.  Lockwood  (Williams  '96),  Leroy  A.  Lincoln 
(Yale  '02),  and  Richmond  Lennox  Brown  (Yale  '07),  under  the 
name  Rumsey  &  Morgan.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Franklin  Safe 
Deposit  Company. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  New  York 
State  Bar  Association,  has  been  designated  by  the  Governor  to 
represent  the  Provost  Marshal  on  draft  appeals,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Mayor  Mitchell's  Defense  Committee. 

He  is  a  trustee  and  secretary  of  the  Brooklyn  Public  Library, 
a  trustee  of  the  Brooklyn  Institute  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  and  on 
the  Governing  Committee  of  its  Museums,  and  a  trustee  of  the 
Brooklyn  Children's  Aid  Society.  He  serves  as  chairman  of 
the  Men's  Association  of  Grace  Episcopal  Church. 

As  a  member  of  the  5th  Battery,  Veteran  Corps  of  Artillery,  he 
saw  active  service  guarding  the  New  York  Aqueduct.  On  the 
reorganization  of  the  Guard  effective  October  1,  19 17,  he  became 
a  member  of  the  Machine  Gun  Company,  23d  Regiment,  New 
York  Guard.  He  belongs  to  the  University,  Hamilton,  and 
Rembrandt  clubs. 

He  was  married  November  10,  1903,  in  Richmond,  Virginia, 
to  Lelia  Augusta,  daughter  of  Major  William  Barksdale  Myers,  a 
lawyer  and  portrait  painter,  and  Martha  West  (Paul)  Myers. 
They  have  one  daughter:  Lelia  Adela  Pegram,  born  May 
30,  1907. 

Morgan  writes  :  "Every  boy  worth  his  salt  visualizes  his  future 
and  as  I  left  college  my  ambitions  did  not  then  appear  so  immod- 
est as  they  now  seem.  As  far  as  I  can  remember  they  were: 
to  be  admitted  to  the  bar  as  soon  as  possible,  rise  to  be  a  leader 
in  my  profession  in  the  space  of  a  few  years,  and  retire  when 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  3*3 

I  approached  fifty  to  my  extensive  country  estate  (still  in  Spain) 
with  a  comfortable  fortune,  surfeited  with  honors ;  to  spend  what 
I  then  considered  my  old  age  (i.  e.,  fifty  to  about  seventy-five  or 
eighty  with  eighty  preferred)  in  thought,  reflection,  and  in  giving 
audiences  to  delegations  of  my  faithful  people  who  would  come 
to  consult  the  seer,  until  finally  I  passed  away  surrounded  by  a 
score  or  two  of  sorrowing  children  and  grandchildren.  This  was 
the  dream  ;   the  reality  follows  : 

"Very  shortly  after  my  admission  to  the  bar  I  entered 
active  politics.  Through  the  dropping  out  of  men  old  in  service 
in  the  Legislature,  the  opportunity  was  afforded  me  to  fill  posi- 
tions of  some  importance  which  have  had  a  considerable  bearing 
on  my  after  career.  The  work  as  chairman  of  the  Taxation 
Committee  in  the  session  of  1902  gave  me  a  knowledge  of,  and 
experience  in,  this  subject  which  has  been  of  great  benefit  in  my 
profession.  The  work  as  chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Committee 
and  acting  leader  (in  the  absence  of  the  Speaker)  in  1903  gave 
me  a  state-wide  acquaintance  and  brought  me  many  friends  who 
have  helped  along. 

"After  four  busy  years  in  the  Legislature,  practicing  law  dur- 
ing the  sessions  as  best  I  could  and  during  the  succeeding  nine 
months  almost  without  break,  I  left  politics  in  order  to  marry, 
and  here  happened  one  of  those  incidents  unnoted  at  the  time 
which  so  often  influence  a  man's  course  for  the  better. 

"If  I  had  remained  in  active  politics  I  might  have  filled  more 
important  offices  with  credit,  but  no  one  realizes  more  clearly 
than  I  do  that  politics  is  a  selfish  game  where  one  man  rises  by 
stepping  upon  the  body  of  his  fellow,  and  I  might  just  as  well 
have  been  the  body  as  the  man  who  rose,  while  the  necessity  of 
making  a  living  has  kept  me  during  the  last  fifteen  years  to  the 
strict  practice  of  my  profession  with  its  accompanying  steady 
and  increasing  reward. 

"After  finishing  my  course  at  the  Law  School  I  returned  to 
Brooklyn  to  live,  largely  because  my  mother  and  father  still 
resided  there,  but  my  ambition  was,  as  soon  as  my  means  per- 
mitted, to  move  over  to  the  great  Borough  and  make  my  life  and 
friends  there.  Instead,  I  have  remained  in  Brooklyn  where  I 
was  born  and  where  I  expect  to  die,  and  contrary  to  expectation  I 
have  found  there  a  home,  profession,  clients,  friends,  happiness, 
and  content. 

"I    have    been    able    to    sandwich    in    many    delightful    trips 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


between  long  months  of  work.  I  visited  Central  America, 
Hawaii,  and  Japan  in  1894;  England,  France,  and  Switzer- 
land in  1901 ;  Ireland,  ^England,  Scotland,  and  France  in 
1905;  England  in  1906;  I  enjoyed  a  long  motor  trip  in  France 
and  Germany  in  the  summer  of  1908  and  another  in  Italy  and 
France  in  the  winter  and  spring  of  1914.  I  have  made  the  time 
to  go  South  to  shoot  for  a  week  or  ten  days  for  several  winters, 


SERVING   WITH    THE   VETERAN    CORPS   OF   ARTILLERY 


and  in  the  spring  and  summer  I  have  spent  my  Sundays  playing 
golf,  which  I  have  at  last  partially  learned  after  years  of 
travail. 

"I  spoke  of  my  marriage  as  a  turning  point  in  my  life.  My 
wife,  a  Virginian,  had  studied  art  and  music  abroad  for  several 
years  before  her  marriage  and  immediately  took  up  my  educa- 
tion along  those  avenues  till  then  closed  by  the  barrier  of  dense 
ignorance.  In  young  manhood  I  had  been  dragged  to  the  opera 
which  I  dismally  failed  to  understand,  and  had  spent  weary 
hours  gazing  at  long  walls  in  the  galleries  abroad  filled  with  can- 
vases which  had  no  meaning.  After  marriage  I  was  taken  to  the 
opera  regularly  and  led  to  study  pictures,  and  it  has  followed  that 
I  progressed  from  one  stage  to  another  until  I  now  go  to  the  opera 
because  I  love  it,  and  my  interest  in  art  is  wide  although  centered 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  315 

in  American  paintings  of  the  Colonial  and  early  Constitutional 
period,  that  is, — from  1725  to  1825.  I  have  read  most  of  the 
available  books  and  articles  on  this  subject  and  whenever  a  trip, 
either  of  business  or  pleasure,  has  called  me  from  home  I  use  my 
leisure  in  examining  the  old  canvases  in  City  Hall  or  Historical 
Society  in  the  various  cities  I  visit,  and  then  I  began  to  write  a 
little  on  the  subject.  Several  years  ago  I  was  placed  on  the 
Governing  Committee  of  the  Museums  of  the  Brooklyn  Institute 
of  Arts  and  Sciences  for  the  purpose  of  utilizing  the  knowledge  I 
had  gained,  and  am  frequently  sent  to  other  cities  to  pass  on  or 
purchase  these  early  portraits  for  its  collection  or  for  private 
individuals.  Nothing  causes  me  more  quiet  amusement  when  I 
occasionally  see  my  name  referred  to  as  somewhat  of  an  expert  in 
this  line,  than  to  remember  that  when  I  was  in  college,  I  never 
entered  the  Trumbull  Gallery  to  see  the  collection  there  contained, 
unrivalled  in  its  examples  of  that  artist,  and  never  once  looked  at 
Smybert's  portrait  of  Governor  Berkeley  and  his  family  now 
hanging  in  Commons  Hall,  and  if  I  had  I  would  not  have  under- 
stood its  connection  with  the  history  of  art  in  America.  With 
what  scorn  and  contempt  would  I  have  contemplated  my  own 
portrait  twenty-five  years  ago  as  one  having  knowledge  in  these 
lines,  and  yet  this  hobby,  if  it  has  brought  me  no  profit,  has  at 
least  brought  great  pleasure  in  its  riding. 

"I  have  sent  two  kodaks  of  myself  in  compliance  with  the 
Secretary's  request,  one  at  real  work  and  the  other  at  play.  The 
one  in  khaki  was  taken  at  the  Fort  Hill  Sector  of  the  New  York 
Aqueduct,  near  Tuckahoe,  where  the  Veteran  Corps  of  Artillery 
was  on  guard  in  the  summer  of  191 7.  I  was  attached  to  the 
Headquarters  Squad,  and  I  may  explain  that  the  colored  gentle- 
man was  not  one  of  my  brothers  in  arms  but  was  the  cook  for 
the  seven  posts  in  that  Sector. 

"And  now  what  of  my  dreams  have  been  realized.  When  I 
started  practice  I  had  a  well  denned  ambition  of  going  on  the 
Bench  some  day  but  when  the  chance  came  entirely  unsought  last 
November,  I  found  that  I  was  not  so  keen  to  give  up  the  inde- 
pendence which  the  private  practice  of  your  profession  gives 
and  again  go  into  the  harness  of  public  office,  and  so  one  at  least 
of  my  ambitions  was  voluntarily  relinquished. 

"Another  ambition  was  to  retire  at  the  old  age  of  fifty,  but  now 
that  I  see  the  time  approaching  I  think  that  probably  by  the  well- 
known  legal  process  of  procrastination,  I  may  defer  its  fulfill- 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


ment  until  I  am  really  old, — say  sixty,  and  when  that  time  comes, 
a  motion  to  reconsider  may  again  be  entertained. 

" After  twenty-two  years  of  hard  work  at  the  bar,  I  find  my- 
self with  neither  the  great  fortune  I  sought  nor  the  position  of 
assured  leadership  I  confidently  expected,  nor  yet  the  numerous 
family  I  saw  in  my  mind's  eye,  but  I  have  realized  happiness 
and  content  to  an  extent  greater  than  most  because  circumstances 
have  brought  home  to  me  the  truth  of  the  prayer  of  the  poet 
Rogers,  which  I  quote  from  memory, — 

Grant  me,  O  Lord,  that  middle  state 

Neither  too  humble  nor  too  great, 
With  quite  enough  to  meet  life's  ends 

And  something  o'er  to  treat  my  friends." 


Albert  Hooker  Morse 

With  the  Symington  Forge  Company,  Rochester,  New  York 

Residence,  6  Elm  Street,  Fairport,  New  York 

Morse  is  a  son  of  Francis  B. 
and  Alice  (Burnham)  Morse, 
who  were  married  in  1854  and 
had  six  other  children,  only 
two  of  whom  lived  to  matu- 
rity: Francis  B.  Morse  and 
Henry  Harvey  Morse  (B.A. 
Amherst  1885,  B.D.  Yale 
1888)  (died  February  19, 
1912).  The  father  was  born 
in  Rumford,  Maine,  in  1816, 
but  lived  in  Connecticut  after 
1856;  he  was  superintendent 
of  the  Henry  Hooker  Com- 
pany, New  Haven,  from  1856 
to  1868,  and  of  H.  D.  Smith 
&  Company,  Plantsville,  until 
his  death  in  1873.  The 
mother  was  also  born  in 
Maine  (Bridgton,  1838)  and 
albert  h.  morse  died    in    Plantsville    in    1889. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  317 


On  both  sides  the  family  is  of  Colonial  ancestry,  having  settled 
in  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  about  1632. 

Albert  H.  Morse  was  born  March  28,  1868,  in  New  Haven, 
Connecticut,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Bridgton  (Maine)  Acad- 
emy. He  received  a  colloquy  appointment  and  one-year  honors 
in  philosophy  in  Senior  year. 

The  year  after  graduation  he  taught  at  the  Episcopal  Academy, 
Cheshire,  and  from  1894  to  1896  at  the  Boardman  Manual  Train- 
ing School,  New  Haven.  After  serving  as  superintendent  of 
schools  at  Webster,  Massachusetts,  from  1897  to  1904,  he  went 
into  business  and  was  manager  of  Balch  Brothers,  publishers, 
Boston,  until  191 3,  and  then  for  two  years  held  the  same  position 
with  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Company.  In  September,  1916,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  General  Railway  Signal  Company, 
Rochester,  and  was  engaged  in  the  heat  treatment  of  metals 
generally,  with  special  work  on  tools,  dies,  and  parts  of  gun 
shells  and  air-plane  motors.  In  April,  1918,  he  transferred  to 
the  Symington  Forge  Company,  Rochester,  and  is  working  on 
the  heat  treatment  of  billets  and  shells.     He  resides  in  Fairport. 

He  is  a  Republican.  He  belongs  to  the  Congregational  Church 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order  and  is  an  Odd  Fellow. 

He  was  married  December  24,  1895,  in  New  Haven,  to  Nellie 
V.,  daughter  of  Albert  Warren  Angus.  They  have  nine  children : 
Alice  Burnham,  born  August  22,  1896;  Emma  Diantha,  born 
November  28,  1897;  Nellie  V.,  born  July  7,  1899;  Harvey 
Francis,  born  February  22,  1901 ;  Albert  Henry,  born  May  18, 
1903;  Elizabeth  Kingman,  born  April  13,  1905;  Roger  Winfield, 
born  July  9,  1906;  Gilbert  Balch,  born  May  11,  1908,  and  Donald 
Stewart,  born  July  4,  191 1. 

Morse  writes :  "Things  are  going  pretty  well  with  me  on  the 
whole — by  that  I  mean  we  are  alive  and  progressing  as  a  family. 
Seven  of  the  children  are  in  school.  I  have  only  one  in  college, 
my  oldest  daughter,  a  Junior.  There  are  several  in  high  school 
and  all  down  along  the  educational  ladder  there  is  a  representa- 
tive of  the  family. 

"I  shall  try  to  do  all  I  can  to  push  the  education  of  the  whole 
'bunch/  It  goes  without  saying  that  one  or  two  at  the  very 
least  are  heading  for  Yale. 

"Economic  and  educational  matters  pertaining  to  the  family 
have  used  much  of  my  time  and  strength  and  yet  I  am  well  and 
still  hustling  with  the  problems  as  they  arise.     A  career  in  the 


3i 8  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

ordinary  sense  has  not  been  mine  and  probably  will  not  be.  I  am 
satisfied  to  live  as  I  have  had  to  within  the  family  and  never  get 
sore  and  disheartened.  I  have  gotten  and  am  getting  a  great 
deal  of  joy  out  of  life. 

"In  the  splendid  achievements  of  my  classmates  and  all  Yale 
men  I  am  immensely  happy. 

"As  we  have  used  the  educational  equipment  of  the  community, 
so  we  have  been  a  small  part  of  the  religious  circle  and  all  to  our 
benefit. 

"Being  the  only  member  of  the  family  hitherto  with  the  suf- 
frage right,  I  have  tried  to  do  my  duty,  and  bear  some  of  the 
burden,  serving  frequently  as  now  in  the  capacity  of  election 
inspector.     I  have  had  no  ambition  politically  speaking. 

"The  outdoor  life  of  the  sportsman  and  the  agriculturist  both 
strongly  appeal  to  me.  The  former  I  gave  up  some  years  ago 
through  necessity,  and  the  latter  I  am  now  taking  up  almost  for 
the  same  reason. 

"For  some  years  before  the  war  started  I  found  great  pleas- 
ure in  Nature  Club  work.  It  was  my  good  fortune  to  meet 
during  those  years  the  famous  naturalists  of  both  this  country 
and  Canada.  The  results  of  our  work  were  far  reaching  and 
served  to  enrich  the  lives  of  thousands.  I  can  with  some  satis- 
faction recall  the  names  of  several  men  and  women  of  the  lecture 
platform  in  this  line  in  whom  I  really  planted  the  first  love 
of  nature. 

"Last  year  I  had  a  war  garden  of  three  acres.  This  year  I  am 
stretching  out  even  farther.  Drafting  the  services  of  my  chil- 
dren, I  planted  last  Saturday  three  bushels  of  potato  seed  to  a 
little  less  than  half  an  acre  in  three  hours  and  thirty  minutes, — 
the  ground  being  previously  prepared  for  us. 

"That  there  is  great  need  of  food  production  I  am  convinced 
so  I  shall  hustle  along  this  line  with  every  bit  of  strength  I  can 
rally  after  serving  ten  hours  at  night  in  the  shell  works." 


*William  Henry  Murphy 

Died  February  15,  1906 

W.  H.  Murphy  was  born  October  11,  1869,  in  Southville,  in 
the  town  of  Southboro,  Massachusetts,  the  son  of  James  D. 
Murphy,  a  farmer,  and  Mary  (O'Brien)  Murphy,  and  was  pre- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


3*9 


pared  for  Yale  at  the  high  school  in  Westboro,  Massachusetts, 
and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  New  Hampshire.  In  college 
he  received  a  first  dispute  appointment  both  as  a  Junior  and  as  a 
Senior;  was  a  member  of  the  University  Baseball  Team  for 
three  years  and  its  captain  in 
Junior  year;  and  a  member 
of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

For  a  year  after  graduation 
he  played  on  the  New  York 
League  Baseball  Team.  In 
1894  he  entered  Bellevue 
Hospital  and  Medical  College 
(New  York  University)  and 
received  his  M.D.  degree  in 
1897.  The  next  two  years  he 
practiced  his  profession  in 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
and  also  coached  the  baseball 
team  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania.  He  was  then 
coach  for  a  year,  1899- 1900, 
at  Leland  Stanford,  Junior,  \ 
University  and  practiced 
medicine  in  Palo  Alto,  Cali- 
fornia, in  1 901.  In  1903-1904 
he  coached  the  Yale  Univer- 
sity Nine,  and  the  next  year  acted  in  the  same  capacity  for  the 
United  States  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis,  Maryland.  In  Janu- 
ary, 1906,  he  went  to  Saranac  Lake,  New  York,  for  treatment, 
and  February  15,  1906,  he  died  of  tuberculosis  at  his  home  in 
Westboro,  Massachusetts. 

He  was  unmarried. 


WILLIAM    H.    MURPHY 


Alfred  Goldstein  Nadler 

Physician,  377  Orange  Street,  New  Haven,  Connecticut 

Nadler  is  a  son  of  Isaac  Hirsch  and  Lena  (Goldstein)  Nadler, 
who  were  married  October  29,  185 1,  and  had  seven  other  children : 
Hugo  (died  November  26,  191 1),  Rachel,  Julia,  Mollie  (died 
April  12,  1915),  Yetta  (died  April  16,  1900),  Dora,  and  Hannah 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


(Nadler)  Myers.  The  father  (born  April  8,  1815,  in  Tachau, 
Bohemia  [Austria]  ;  died  July  22,  1893,  in  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut) came  to  the  United  States  in  1845  and  spent  the  rest 
of  his  life  in  New  Haven  except  from  1859  to  1866,  when  he 


ALFRED   G.    NADLER 


lived  in  Columbus,  Georgia.  He  was  a  drygoods  merchant. 
The  mother  was  born  April  9,  1828,  in  Wilhelmsdorf,  Bavaria, 
and  died  June  2.7,  1905,  in  New  Haven. 

Alfred  G.  Nadler  was  born  November  19,  1873,  in  New 
Haven,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School.  In  col- 
lege he  received  a  dissertation  Junior  and  an  oration  Senior 
appointment. 

He  continued  at  Yale  until  1896,  in  that  year  being  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  M.D.  He  was  licensed  to  practice  in  Con- 
necticut, and,  after  a  year's  service  in  the  New  Haven  Hospital, 
has  practiced  in  New  Haven  continuously.  He  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  School  of  Medicine  since  1900  as  follows : 
assistant  in  the  Pathological  Laboratory,  1900-06;  assistant  in 
pediatrics,  1902-06;   assistant  in  dermatology,  1906-12,  and  clin- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  321 

ical  instructor  in  dermatology  since  191 2.  In  1901  he  was  med- 
ical inspector  of  the  public  schools  of  New  Haven,  and  from  1902 
to  1909,  attending  physician  at  Springside  Hospital.  He  spent 
the  year  1909  abroad,  studying  dermatology  in  Paris,  Berne, 
Breslau,  Berlin,  and  Vienna. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican;  in  1897-98  he  served  on  the 
Common  Council.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Medical  Advisory 
Board,  District  of  New  Haven. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Mishkan  Israel  Congregation. 

His  professional  affiliations  are  the  New  Haven  Medical  Asso- 
ciation (officer  at  different  times),  New  Haven  County  Medical 
Society,  Connecticut  Medical  Society,  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, American  Roentgen  Ray  Society,  and  Yale  Medical 
Alumni  Association. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Harmonie  Club,  Racebrook  Country 
Club,  Young  Men's  Republican  Club,  New  Haven  Lodge  of  Elks, 
Horeb  Lodge  No.  25,  I.  O.  B.  B.,  Hiram  Lodge  No.  1,  A.  F.  and 
A.  M.,  Quinnipiac  Lodge  No.  I,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  New  Haven. 

He  has  not  married. 

Nadler  writes :  "We  have  now  reached  that  period  in  our 
career  commonly  known  as  'turning  out' ;  what  we  are  going  to 
be,  we  pretty  nearly  are. 

"Most  of  us  can  still  hope,  some  of  us  are  firmly  seated  on  our 
hobbies  and  breaking  into  a  steady  trot,  and  all  of  us  are  as 
thickly  plastered  with  habits  which  go  to  make  the  sum  and  sub- 
stance of  our  lives  as  a  fish  is  with  scales. 

"If  we  can  become  philosophers  also  and  after  having  done  our 
level  best  say  with  calm  conviction  'Whatever  is,  is'  and  'There's 
an  end  on't'  then  shall  we  go  down  the  hill  towards  the  sunset 
unafraid  and  supremely  indifferent  to  our  increasing  waist  line 
and  our  decreasing  hair. 

"It  is  no  tax  on  the  imagination  to  realize  that  the  life  of  a 
busy  practitioner  of  to-day  is  not  adventurous.  It  does  not 
remotely  resemble  the  popular  mind's  eye  picture  of  St.  George 
going  forth  to  slay  the  Dragon.  Dragons  of  fearful  and 
devastating  mien  I  meet  daily  but  there  is  nothing  spectacular  in 
the  manner  of  their  death.  Nor  can  I  become  the  envy  and 
admiration  of  the  block  by  riding  out  in  casque  and  plume  on  an 
incomparable  steed  gaily  and  sumptuously  caparisoned.  Rather 
at  any  hour  of  the  day  or  night  I  slip  away  in  my  trusty  Haynes 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


with  my  rusty  bag  which,  from  a  Romanticist's  view,  resembles 
the  wren's  tail,  not  worth  mentioning. 

"In  the  words  of  the  old  country  deacon,  T  ain't  so  handsome 
as  some  nor  so  homely  as  some,  but  perfectly  genteel.'  For  the 
rest — I  am  a  law-abiding  citizen,  think  that  the  U.  S.  A.  and  the 
American  nation  is  something  to  be  proud  of  and  thankful  for, 
pay  my  bills  promptly,  Tear  God  and  honor  the  King,'  which 
little  platform  is  enough  to  keep  any  one  man  busy. 

"And  now,  Gentlemen,  what  more  would  you?" 


Emerson  Root  Newell 

Captain,  Field  Artillery,  U.  S.  N.  A.,  Instructor,  Officers'  Training  Camp 

Senior  partner,  Newell  &  Neal,  patent  lawyers,  2  Rector  Street, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  Greenwich,  Connecticut 

Newell  is  the  only  son  of 
Edward  E.  and  Piera  Hender- 
son (Root)  Newell,  who  were 
married  in  1870  and  had  also 
one  daughter,  Antoinette 
Newell,  Vassar  '97  (Mrs. 
A.  S.  Brackett).  E.  E. 
Newell  (born  December  12, 
1834,  in  Farmington,  Connect-1 
icut)  has  lived  in  Bristol,  Con- 
necticut, since  he  was  a  young 
man.  He  was  a  clock  manu- 
facturer with  S.  E.  Root  & 
Company,  but  has  now  retired. 
His  earliest  American  ances- 
tor, Thomas  Newell,  came 
from  England  in  1640  and 
settled  at  Farmington.  Mrs. 
Newell  was  born  October  6, 
1849,  m  Bristol  and  is  a  de- 
scendant of  Thomas  Root  who 

came  from  England  and  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Hartford, 

Connecticut. 


EMERSON    R.    NEWELL 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  3*3 


Emerson  R.  Newell  was  born  January  i,  1872,  in  Bristol,  and 
was  prepared  at  the  high  school  there.  He  received  dispute 
appointments  and  was  a  member  of  the  second  Glee  Club,  the 
College  Choir,  the  Yale  Union,  and  Zeta  Psi. 

He  studied  law  in  Bristol  from  1893  to  1895  and  was  admitted 
to  the  Connecticut  Bar.  He  then  went  to  Washington  as  an 
examiner  in  the  Patent  Office  (1895-98)  and  at  the  same  time 
enrolled  in  the  Graduate  Department  of  Columbian  University. 
In  1896  he  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Laws  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  and  in  1897  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Patent  Laws  was  conferred  on  him.  He 
commenced  the  practice  of  patent  law  in  New  York  in  1898  and 
on  March  1,  1910,  formed  a  partnership  with  Chester  T.  Neal, 
Yale  '05. 

Having  served  in  Squadron  A,  Cavalry,  New  York  National 
Guard,  from  1900  to  19 13  through  all  the  ranks  from  private  to 
captain,  he  entered  the  second  Officers'  Training  Camp  at 
Plattsburg  in  191 7  and  was  commissioned  on  November  27, 
Captain  of  Field  Artillery,  U.  S.  N.  A.  On  December  15,  1917, 
he  was  detailed  to  Camp  Stanley  as  Artillery  Instructor  and 
writing  from  there  says : 

"At  present  (January  29,  1918)  my  principal  'plans,  aims/  etc., 
are  to  'teach  the  young  idea  how  to  shoot,'  literally  and  fig- 
uratively, for  I  am  here  as  an  artillery  instructor  of  about  200 
candidates  for  commissions,  with  hopes  of  getting  overseas  soon 
and  helping  to  finish  up  this  difference  of  opinion  between  the 
Germans  and  us." 

From  Camp  Stanley  he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Jackson  and 
on  May  5  was  made  commanding  officer  of  the  12th  Battalion;  a 
later  detail  was  to  Camp  Wadsworth. 

Newell  is  a  Republican.  He  has  been  a  member  and  chairman 
(1917)  of  the  Greenwich  Board  of  Health.  He  belongs  to  the 
Congregational  Church. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Yale  Club,  Squadron  A  Club,  and  Law- 
yers Club  (New  York  City),  and  the  Country  Club,  Field  Club, 
Greenwich  Riding  Association,  and  Fairfield  County  Hounds 
(Greenwich). 

He  was  married  November  24,  1907,  in  Galveston,  Texas,  to 
Ella,  daughter  of  George  Sealy,  a  banker,  and  Margaret  (Willis) 
Sealy.  They  have  two  children :  George  Sealy,  born  May  23, 
1910,  and  Eleanor,  born  January  14,  191 5. 


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William  Lewis  Newton 

Secretary  and  treasurer,  Albro  J.  Newton  Company,  528  Union  Street, 
Brooklyn,  New  York 

Residence,  275  Henry  Street,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

Newton  is  the  only  son  of  Albro  J.  and  Delia  A.  (Lewis)  New- 
ton, who  were  married  August  16,  i860,  and  had  three  other 
children,  daughters :  Grace  (married  Arnold  G.  Dana,  Yale  '83 ; 
their  son   is   Albro   Newton   Dana,    1920)  ;    Harriet    (Newton) 


WILLIAM    L.    NEWTON 


Dimond,  and  Delia  (Newton)  Graves.  Albro  J.  Newton,  son  of 
William  and  Lois  (Butler)  Newton,  was  born  August  16,  1832,  in 
Sherburne,  New  York,  and  attended  the  Sherburne  Academy. 
Since  1861  he  has  lived  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  lumber  business,  first  with  Kenyon  &  Newton, 
and  since  1897  as  president  of  the  Albro  J.  Newton  Company. 
His  brothers,  Isaac  S.  Newton,  Professor  Hubert  Anson  Newton, 
and  Homer  G.  Newton,  were  graduated  at  Yale  in  1848,  1850, 
and   1859,  respectively;    his  nephews,  all  sons  of  Isaac  S.,  are 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


325 


Howard  D.  Newton,  '79,  I.  Burkett  Newton,  '83,  and  Edward 
P.  Newton,  '97;  his  grandnephew,  Lieutenant  Burkett  D.  New- 
ton, is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1914.  Mrs.  Newton  (born  June 
12,  1840,  in  Exeter,  New  York;  died  August  2,  1878,  in  Brook- 
lyn) was  the  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Lester  and  Cornelia  Greene 
(Ball)  Lewis. 

William  L.  Newton  was  born 
December  17,  1871,  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  and  was  prepared  at 
the  Brooklyn  Collegiate  and 
Polytechnic  Institute.  In  col- 
lege he  received  a  dispute  Junior 
and  a  dissertation  Senior  ap- 
pointment. 

He  has  been  associated  with 
his  father's  firm,  the  Albro  J. 
Newton  Company,  lumber,  since 
graduation  and  holds  the  posi- 
tions of  secretary  and  treasurer. 
He  is  a  trustee  of  the  South 
Brooklyn  Savings  Institution. 

He  is  a  Republican  "most  of 
the  time."     He  is  a  trustee  of  the 

Brooklyn  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital  and  president  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims. 

He  belonged  to  the  Veteran  Corps  of  Artillery  and  23d  Regi- 
ment, New  York  Guard,  and  served  two  weeks  on  guard  duty  at 
the  Aqueduct  in  August,  1917,  but  resigned  in  March,  1918.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Hamilton  Club. 

He  was  married  October  19,  1899,  in  Brooklyn,  to  Florence 
Lavinia,  daughter  of  Joseph  Epes  and  Lavinia  M.  (Iveson) 
Brown.  Mrs.  Newton's  brothers  are  Nathan  H.  Brown, 
r^*-'o2  S.,  and  Joseph  Epes  Brown,  Jr.,  '13.  There  are  four 
children:  Florence,  born  February  4,  1901  (Brooklyn  Heights 
Seminary)  ;  Joseph  Epes  and  Nathan  Brown,  born  November  4, 
1902  (Polytechnic  Country  Day  School),  and  William  Lewis,  Jr., 
born  March  11,  1910  (Brooklyn  Heights  Seminary). 


NEWTON  S    SONS 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


William  Allan  Osborn 

191 1  East  Seventy-fifth  Street,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Osborn  is  a  son  of  Alanson  T.  and  Catharine  A.  (Chisholm) 
Osborn,  who  were  married  October  7,  1868,  and  had  two  other 
children:  Jean  (Osborn)  Phillips  and  Henry  C.  Osborn.  The 
father    (born   April    11,    1845,    in   Rensselaerville,    New   York) 


WILLIAM    A.    OSBORN 


moved  to  Cleveland  when  about  eighteen  and  has  been  in  business 
with  the  Sherwin-Williams  Company,  paint  manufacturers, 
1867-82;  the  A.  T.  Osborn  Company,  paint  retailers,  1882- 1906, 
and  the  Subers-Fabric  &  Rubber  Company,  manufacturers  of 
rubber  fabrics,  since  1906.  His  grandparents  were  of  English 
birth ;  they  emigrated  to  America  in  early  life  and  settled  in  New 
York  State.  Catharine  (Chisholm)  Osborn  was  born  June  30, 
1845,  in  Montreal,  Canada;  her  parents,  natives  of  Scotland,  came 
to  Canada  in  1842  and  came  to  Cleveland  in  1850,  where  they 
spent  the  remainder  of  their  lives. 

William  A.  Osborn  was  born  October  27,  1869,  in  Cleveland, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  Cleveland  public  schools  and  with 
a  tutor.     In  college  he  received  an  oration  Junior  and  a  dispute 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  327 

Senior  appointment,  was  treasurer  one  year  and  on  the  Board  of 
Governors  of  the  University  Club,  secretary  of  the  University 
Banjo  Club,  and  a  member  of  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Scroll 
and  Key. 

He  was  a  graduate  student  in  chemistry  in  1893-94  and 
received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Yale  in  1895.  In  1894  he  entered 
the  employ  of  The  Cleveland  Rolling  Mill  Company  (now  U.  S. 
Steel  Corporation)  as  chemist  and  became  in  1897  head  of  the 
analytical  department.  In  1900,  on  account  of  ill  health,  he  gave 
up  his  position  with  the  Steel  Corporation  and  spent  about  a  year 
traveling.  From  1901  to  present  time  he  has  been  engaged 
with  the  affairs  of  an  estate  (that  of  his  mother),  looking  after 
certain  small  business  interests  of  his  own  and  doing  some 
chemical  work,  analytical  and  research.  He  is  vice-president  and 
a  director  of  the  A.  A.  Mudge  Company,  brokers. 

Republican  in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Euclid  Avenue 
Baptist  Church.  He  belongs  to  the  Union  and  Country  clubs 
of  Cleveland. 

He  has  not  married. 

Osborn  writes :  "I  don't  know  as  there  is  much  to  add  to  the 
'cold  facts'  comprising  the  biographical  and  genealogical  data  as 
given  in  Nos.  1-42.  The  cross-examination  by  the  Secretary  has 
been  so  searching  that  at  least  in  my  case  there  remains  little  to  be 
said.  It  gave  me  some  jolt  when  the  'questionnaire'  arrived  and 
reminded  me  of  the  fact  that  twenty-five  years  (a  quarter  of  a 
century!)  had  passed  since  we  stood  together  '  'neath  the  elms  of 
Dear  Old  Yale'  and  as  step  by  step  I  have  laid  bare  the  innermost 
secrets  of  my  life  during  that  period  I  have  experienced  feelings 
of  regret,  yes  I  may  say  shame,  that  my  'plans'  have  not  been 
better  made,  my  'aims'  higher  and  my  'accomplishments'  greater. 
Would  that  I  might  at  this  time  be  able  to  fill  ream  upon  ream 
with  the  record  of  deeds  great  and  glorious,  done  by  me.  But 
some  must  play  the  humbler  roles  and  for  such  a  part  I  seem  to 
have  been  cast.  My  'travels'  while  not  extensive  have  been  one 
of  my  forms  of  recreating.  As  to  'hobbies,'  books,  especially 
those  dealing  with  history  and  science,  have  been  my  chief  delight, 
while  'picturizing'  with  the  camera  has  enabled  me  to  pass  many 
interesting  hours.  'My  family.'  Alas !  that  I  cannot  respond  to 
this  toast.  But  who  knows?  Perhaps,  when  another  cycle  has 
passed,  I  too  may  have  something  to  say  on  this  subject.  Here's 
hoping !" 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


William  White  Wilson  Parker 

Lawyer 
1738  Connecticut  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Parker  is  the  son  of  E.  Southard  Parker,  a  banker,  of  English 
and  Scotch  ancestry.  He  was  born  August  18,  1868,  in  Mifflin- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Mifflin  Acad- 
emy and  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Massachusetts.     In  college 

he  was  a  member  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Weekly  committee, 
financial  editor  of  the  News, 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Athletic  Association,  and  a 
member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and 
Skull  and  Bones. 

After  graduation  he  studied 
law  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania, for  two  years,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  Pennsylvania 
Bar  in  November,  1895. 
From  1895  to  1900  he  prac- 
ticed in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania. In  1900  he  was  vice- 
president  of  the  Alaska  Bank- 
ing and  Safe  Deposit  Com- 
pany, Nome  City,  Alaska. 
From  1 90 1  to  1909  he  was 
assistant  cashier  of  the 
National  Metropolitan  Bank, 
in  Washington,  D.  C,  after 
which  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania. 
In  December,  191 6,  he  went  to  Washington,  D.  C. ;    in  October, 

1917,  was  in  Mifflintown,  Pennsylvania;    and  then  in  January, 

1918,  returned  to  Washington,  D.  C. 
He  has  not  married. 


WILLIAM    W.    W.    PARKER 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


329 


Francis  Parsons 

Captain,  American  Red  Cross,  Great  Britain 

Vice-president  and  trust  officer,  Security  Trust  Company,  56  Pearl  Street, 
Hartford,  Connecticut 

Residence,  27  Forest  Street,  Hartford,  Connecticut 

His  father,  John  Caldwell  Parsons,  Yale  '55  (born  June  3, 
1832,  in  Hartford,  and  died  there  March  11,  1898),  was  a  son 
of  Francis  Parsons,  B.A.  1816,  and  Clarissa  (Brown)  Parsons 
(daughter  of  William  Brown,  B.A.   1784),  and  great-grandson 


FRANCIS    PARSONS 


of  David  Parsons,  Plonorary  B.A.  1705.  His  first  American 
ancestor,  Joseph  Parsons,  came  from  England  and  settled  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  in  1635.  Mr.  Parsons  was  a  lawyer, 
his  practice  being  chiefly  concerned  with  trusts  and  estates ;  he 
was  also  for  a  time  president  of  the  Security  Company  and  of  the 
Society  for  Savings  of  Hartford,  and  a  director  in  a  number  of 
local  banks  and  insurance  companies.  On  April  7,  1870,  he 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Professor  Samuel  McClellan,  M.D. 
1823,  of  Philadelphia,  a  well-known  physician  of  his  day  and  one 


330  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

of  the  founders  of  Jefferson  Medical  College,  and  Margaret 
Carswell  (Ely)  McClellan.  Her  first  American  ancestor  came 
from  Scotland;  her  grandfather  was  Ezra  Stiles  Ely,  B.A.  1804, 
and  her  great-grandfather,  Zebulon  Ely,  B.A.   1779.     She  was 

born  May  31,  1844,  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  died  January  22, 
1 87 1,  in  Hartford. 
laA^  ^%  <^  ■  Francis   Parsons   was  born 

j       Connecticut,  and  was  pre- 
pared at  the  Hartford  Public 
ra|k  High     School.     Pie     received 

*§£&   ML  HP  i        dispute   appointments,   was   a 

|£:  I        DeForest    and    a    Townsend 

wmfflr    tttw.  imFWtmi  Prize  speaker,  an  editor  of  the 

near  castine,  maine  Lit,   chairman   of   the   Junior 

Prom  Committee,  a  Class 
Deacon,  on  the  Class  Day  Committee,  and  a  member  of  Eta  Phi, 
Psi  Upsilon,  Chi  Delta  Theta,  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

He  was  a  reporter  for  the  Hartford  Courant  from  1893  to 
1895,  and  then  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law.  In  1897  he 
received  the  John  Addison  Porter  Prize,  was  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  and  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar.  He  has 
since  practiced  in  Hartford.  In  1904  he  was  elected  secretary, 
trustee,  and  trust  officer  of  the  Security  Company  and  in  191 2 
was  promoted  to  vice-president  and  trust  officer.  He  is  also  a 
trustee  and  vice-president  of  the  Society  for  Savings,  and  a  direc- 
tor of  the  Connecticut  General  Life  Insurance  Company. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  In  1 899-1900  he  served  on  the 
staff  of  George  E.  Lounsbury,  Governor  of  Connecticut,  as  assist- 
ant quartermaster  general  of  the  state.  In  1906  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  School  Visitors,  and  in  May,  1918, 
completed  a  ten-year  term  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Park 
Commissioners,  Hartford.  In  1917  he  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  Connecticut  Commission  on  Sculpture. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  First  Church  of  Hartford  for 
many  years  and  from  time  to  time  has  served  on  its  Prudential 
Committee.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Hartford  Public  Library 
and  of  several  charitable  and  benevolent  institutions.  In  1914  he 
was  appointed  a  trustee  of  Mount  Holyoke  College  and  in  1916 
chosen  as  secretary  of  the  Board. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  33* 

From  191 1  to  1914  he  was  a  Sergeant  in  Troop  B,  5th  Con- 
necticut Cavalry,  and  in  April,  1917,  joined  the  State  Guard 
with  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant.  In  January,  191 8,  he  was  advanced 
to  Captain  of  Company  B,  1st  Regiment. 

He  went  abroad  in  July,  19 18,  for  six  months'  service  with 
the  American  Red  Cross,  and  in  November  was  appointed  Direc- 
tor of  the  Bureau  of  Home  Service  for  Great  Britain. 

In  May,  1916,  he  published  a  pamphlet  on  "Modern  Militia 
Training."  He  has  contributed  occasionally  to  the  Hartford 
C  our  ant,  and  is  the  author  of  a  story,  "The  Borderland,"  pub- 
lished in  Scribner's  for  March,  191 5.  A  paper  on  Elisha 
Williams,  fourth  president  of  Yale,  is  printed  in  the  Proceedings 
of  the  New  Haven  County  Historical  Society. 

In  1907-08  he  served  as 
president  of  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  Hartford ;  he 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Eliza- 
bethan and  Graduates  clubs, 
New  Haven,  the  University 
Club  of  Hartford,  Hartford 
Club,  Golf  Club,  etc. 

He  was  married  June  22, 
1897,  in  Brandon,  Vermont, 
to  Elizabeth  Alden,  daughter 
of  Major  Robert  Ambrose  parsons' family 

Hutchins,   who  was  assistant 

Adjutant  General  on  the  staff  of  Major  General  O.  B.  Willcox 
during  the  Civil  War,  and  Georgiana  Alden  (Jackson)  Hutchins. 
They  have  had  four  children:  Mary,  born  May  13,  1898;  John 
Caldwell,  born  April  26,  1900;  Francis,  born  September  14,  1905, 
and  died  September  16,  1905 ;  and  Elizabeth  Hutchins,  born 
February  25,  1909. 

George  Leete  Peck 

Partner  in  the  firm  of  Clark,  Hall  &  Peck,  lawyers,  129  Church  Street, 
New  Haven,  Connecticut 

Residence,  395  Main  Street,  West  Haven,  Connecticut 

Peck  is  a  son  of  George  Lyman  and  Fannie  Craft  (Fosdick) 
Peck,  who  were  married  September  15,  1864,  and  had  four  other 
children,   only  one   of   whom,   Fannie   Caroline   Peck,   is   living. 


332 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


George  L.  Peck  (born  September  30,  1832,  in  Wallingford,  Con- 
necticut; died  February  3,  1907,  in  Jamaica,  New  York)  was  a 
druggist  for  over  fifty  years  in  Jamaica,  treasurer  of  the  Jamaica 
Savings  Bank,  a  trustee  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  and  of 


GEORGE   L.    PECK 


the  Village  of  Jamaica.  His  parents  were  William  Augustus  and 
Lucretia  (Leete)  Peck,  and  his  first  paternal  ancestor  in  this 
country  was  Henry  Peck,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  in  the 
company  of  Governor  Eaton,  Rev.  John  Davenport  and  others, 
arriving  at  Boston  June  26,  1637,  and  in  the  next  year  founding 
New  Haven.  On  his  mother's  side  he  was  a  direct  descendant  of 
Governor  William  Leete  of  Connecticut.  He  married  a  second 
time  on  November  4,  1889,  Elizabeth  D.  Hendrickson.  Our 
classmate's  mother  (born  November  24,  1843,  m  Springfield,  New 
York;  died  December  15,  1875,  in  Jamaica)  was  a  daughter  of 
Hon.  Morris  Fosdick,  a  direct  descendant  of  Stephen  Fosdick  of 
Lincoln  County,  England,  and  of  Elder  William  Brewster  of  the 
Mayflower,  and  Catherine  (Baylis)  Fosdick. 

George  Leete  Peck  was  born  August  3,  1870,  in  Jamaica,  New 
York,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School. 

Following  graduation  he  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of 


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Law,  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  and  was  admitted  to  the  Con- 
necticut Bar  in  1895.  He  has  always  practiced  in  New  Haven 
and  since  January,  1896,  has  been  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Clark, 
Hall  &  Peck,  who  specialize  in  land  titles,  conveyancing  and  pro- 
bate practice.  He  is  vice-president  and  treasurer  of  the  New 
Haven  Real  Estate  Title  Company,  vice-president  and  a  director 
of  the  Orange  Bank  &  Trust  Company,  and  a  director  of  the 
Eastern  Machine  Screw  Company. 

Republican  in  politics,  he  is  an  ex-member  of  the  Board  of 
Burgesses,  West  Haven,  and  since  1910  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Finance  of  the  Town  of  Orange. 

He  has  been  a  trustee  of  the  West  Haven  Congregational 
Church  for  six  years. 

He  belongs  to  the  Auto  Club  of  New  Haven,  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  Society  of  Founders  and  Patriots,  New  Haven  Col- 
ony Historical  Society,  New  Haven  Congregational  Club,  Union 
League,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  Society  of  Colonial 
Wars,  New  Haven  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  Lafayette 
Consistory,  Pyramid  Temple  of  Shriners,  Young  Men's  Repub- 
lican Club,  the  Jamaica  Club,  and  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of 
New  Haven. 

He  was  married  December  16,  1897,  in  New  Haven,  Connect- 
icut, to  Katherine  May,  daughter  of  James  Tolles,  of  the  New 
Haven  Bank,  and  Ida  L.  (Pardee)  Tolles.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren: George  Morris,  born  July  3,  1902;  Lawrence  Tolles,  born 
February  21,  1905,  and  Katherine,  born  April  3,  1914. 


Alton  William  Peirce 

Superintendent,    Worcester    County    Training    School,    Oakdale, 
Massachusetts 

Peirce  is  the  only  living  child  of  William  H.  and  Ruby 
L.  (Holden)  Peirce,  who  were  married  November  27,  1867, 
and  had  two  other  children  who  died  in  childhood.  The  father 
(born  May  29, 1840,  in  Orange,  Massachusetts  ;  died  May  6,  1916, 
in  Petersham,  that  state)  lived  in  New  Salem  and  in  Petersham. 
He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  B,  27th  Massachusetts 
Infantry,  October  3,  1861,  and  was  honorably  discharged  Jan- 
uary 24,  1865.  He  was  in  several  battles;  was  severely  wounded 
twice;  was  finally  taken  prisoner  of  war  and  was  confined  over 
six  months  in  Confederate  prisons,  the  larger  portion  of  that  time 


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in  Andersonville.  On  December  2,  1890,  he  married  Joanna  H. 
Wilkinson,  who  survives  him.  Our  classmate's  mother  was  born 
July  17,  1842,  in  New  Salem,  and  died  there  January  24,  1873. 


ALTON    W.    PEIRCE 


Alton  W.  Peirce  was  born  September  25,  1868,  in  New  Salem, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  Athol  High  School  and  at  Cushing 
Academy,  Ashburnham,  Massachusetts.  In  college  he  received 
oration  appointments  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

From  1893  to  1896  he  was  a  graduate  student  and  an  assistant  in 
chemistry,  receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  at  the  end  of  this  period. 
He  then  accepted  a  position  as  principal  of  the  high  school  in 
Shelton,  Connecticut,  where  he  remained  until  1903.  Although 
elected  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Huntington,  Connect- 
icut, he  accepted  the  position  of  principal  of  the  Punchard  Free 
High  School,  Andover,  Massachusetts.  After  one  year  he 
became  principal  of  the  Murdock  School,  Winchendon,  where  he 
was  located  from  1904  to  1906.  He  then  transferred  to  business 
and  was  a  traveling  salesman  for  the  International  Time  Record- 
ing Company  of  Binghamton,  New  York,  for  seven  years.  In 
191 3  he  became  a  special  agent  of  the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company  in  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  where  he  had 


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resided  since  1906.  In  1918  he  returned  to  school  work  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Worcester  County  Training  School  at  Oakdale, 
Massachusetts. 

In  1896-97  several  of  his  articles  were  published  in  the 
American  Journal  of  Science  and  translated  in  Zeitschrift  fur 
Anorganische  Chemie ;  the  titles  are :  The  gravimetric  deter- 
mination of  selenium ;  The  iodometric  determination  of  selenious 
and  selenic  acids ;  A  method  for  the  separation  of  selenium  and 
tellurium  based  on  the  differences  of  the  volatility  of  the 
bromides,  and  on  the  existence  of  selenium  monoxide. 

He  is  a  Republican.  He  belongs  to  Plymouth  Congregational 
Church,  Worcester,  and  is  active  in  the  Men's  Bible  Class. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  United  Commercial  Travelers  of 
America,  Worcester  Council  No.  136. 

He  was  married  December  12,  1894,  in  Oakdale,  Massachusetts, 
to  Alice  Lillian,  daughter  of  Asa  F.  and  Almira  R.  (Davis) 
Rice.  They  have  two  children:  Meredith,  born  July  4,  1896,  in 
New  Haven,  Connecticut,  now  teacher  of  household  arts  at  Per- 
kins Institution  for  the  Blind,  Watertown,  Massachusetts,  and 
Lillian  Evelyn,  born  April  24,  1905,  in  Winchendon,  Massa- 
chusetts. 


^Albert  Wells  Pettibone,  Jr. 

Died  September  29,  1899 

Albert  W.  Pettibone,  the 
son  of  Albert  Wells  Pettibone, 
who  graduated  at  Union  Col- 
lege in  1849,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 30,  1870,  in  Hannibal. 
Missouri,  but  prepared  for 
Yale  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Massachusetts. 
After  graduation  he  took  a 
position  with  the  Hannibal 
Saw  Mill  Company  of  Hanni- 
bal, Missouri,  but  later  moved 
to  La  Crosse,  Wisconsin, 
where  he  continued  with  the 
same  company  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  from  pneu- 
monia September  29,  1899. 


ALBERT    W.    PETTIBONE 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


He  was  married  January  8,  1895,  to  Jessie  C,  daughter  of 
H.  A.  Newell  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  had  two  sons :  John 
Samuel,  born  September  20,  1895,  and  Wilson  Newell,  born 
February  6,  1897. 


CHARLES    M.    POPE 


Charles  Macauley  Pope 

Volunteer  work,   Bureau  of   Investigation,  U.   S.   Department  of  Justice, 
327  West  Fifty-sixth  Street,  New  York  City 

His  father,  Charles  Frederick  Roehr  Pope  (born  February  17, 
1829,  in  Orlishausen,  Saxony,  Germany;  died  July  2,  1899,  in 
New  York  City),  was  the  son  of  Christian  Frederick  Roehr,  an 
architect  and  advanced  thinker  of  fine  literary  attainments,  who 
enjoyed  the  friendship  of  Goethe  and  was  also  closely  associated 
with  the  most  prominent  men  of  Thuringia.  His  republican 
political  opinions  led  him  to  emigrate  in  1834  to  America,  where 
he  settled  in  Rochester,  New  York,  with  his  wife,  Johanna  Maria 
Papst,  and  family.  After  his  father's  death  Charles  F.  Roehr 
assumed  the  surname  Pope,  it  being  that  of  his  mother's  Anglo- 
Saxon  ancestors  (among  whom  was  Sir  Thomas  Pope,  founder 


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of  Trinity  College,  Oxford).  He  achieved  prominence  in  the 
theatrical  profession  as  a  legitimate  actor  of  distinction  and  a 
manager  with  high  ideals.  At  different  times  he  owned  or  con- 
trolled theaters  in  Indianapolis,  New  Orleans,  Kansas  City,  and 
St.  Louis.  From  1889  to  1893  he  was  U.  S.  consul  at  Toronto, 
Canada.  In  April,  1861,  Mr.  Pope  married  Virginia  Cunning- 
ham, an  actress,  supposed  widow  of  P.  C.  Cunningham,  but 
this  marriage  was  annulled  in  August,  1863,  when  it  was  dis- 
covered that  the  latter  was  alive  in  Australia.  On  January  12, 
1867,  he  married  Margaret  Elizabeth  Macauley,  and  they  had 
four  children:  Helen  Macauley,  Katharine  Huntington  (Pope) 
Burke,  Charles  Macauley,  and  Alfred  Macauley  Pope,  Yale  '94. 
Mrs.  Pope  (born  October  23,  1845,  m  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  died 
December  4,  191 5,  in  New  York  City)  was  the  only  daughter  of 
John  and  Bridget  (Smith)  McAuley,  who  came  to  the  United 
States  from  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  in  the  thirties.  Her  father 
was  an  architect  and  builder,  and  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  his 
ancestors  being  of  the  clan  MacAulay  of  Ardincaple  in  Row, 
Dumbartonshire,  Scotland,  having  located  there  in  the  twelfth 
century. 

Charles  M.  Pope  was  born  July  30,  1871,  in  Indianapolis,  and 
was  prepared  at  Smith  Academy  and  Peet  School  in  St.  Louis. 
He  received  colloquy  appointments,  was  on  the  Freshman  Crew, 
the  Class  Crew  Sophomore  and  Junior  years,  member  and  man- 
ager of  the  Class  Football  Team  in  Senior  year,  an  editor  of  the 
C  our  ant,  a  contributor  to  the  Lit,  and  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

The  year  after  graduation  he  was  a  reporter  and  special 
writer  for  the  New  York  Evening  Sun.  From  1895  to  1897  ne 
was  engaged  as  organizer,  director,  and  treasurer  of  the  St. 
Nicholas  Skating  &  Ice  Company,  formed  to  build  the  St. 
Nicholas  Rink,  New  York.  This  led  to  the  real  estate  and 
insurance  business  as  president  of  the  Standard  Realty  Com- 
pany and  later  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Pope  &  Jones.  In  1903 
he  went  to  Canada  and  was  at  first  connected  with  the  Sovereign 
Bank,  later  representing  in  that  country  the  New  York  Lubri- 
cating Oil  Company.  In  1905-06  he  was  again  in  New  York,  in 
the  theatrical  business  and  writing,  and  for  two  other  periods 
was  also  in  theatrical  production  there,  1908-11  and  191 3-1 5. 
In  1907-08  he  was  in  Goldfield  and  Rawhide,  Nevada,  mining 
and    prospecting,    and    also    as    a    contractor    and    builder.     In 


33*  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

1912-13  he  was  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Knicker- 
bocker Motor  Car  Sales  Company  and  sales  manager  of  the 
Regal  Auto  Sales  Company,  New  York  City.  For  the  last  two 
years  he  has  been  supervising  building  alterations  and  improve- 
ments on  the  family  property  in  New  York. 

He  is  a  Republican  (independent).  At  present  he  is  engaged 
in  volunteer  work  in  connection  with  the  Bureau  of  Investigation, 
U.  S.  Department  of  Justice. 

He  was  married  December  18,  1905,  in  Yonkers,  New  York,  to 
Katharine  Josephine  Roberts,  daughter  of  Charles  Pease,  a  mer- 
chant, and  Anna  Agnes  (Foley)  Pease,  whose  second  marriage 
was  to  David  Huyler  Roberts,  window  glass  manufacturer, 
whose  name  was  assumed  by  her  children  by  her  first  husband. 
Mrs.  Pope  was  educated  at  the  Convent  du  Roule  in  Paris  and 
finished  at  the  Misses  Ely's  in  New  York  City.  She  was  on  the 
stage  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  and  has  acted  occasionally  since. 
In  July,  19 1 7,  she  enrolled  as  a  Yeoman  (1st  Class)  in  the 
U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force,  and  was  assigned  to  duty  in  the 
office  of  the  Cable  Censor,  New  York  City.  There  is  one  son, 
Charles  Roberts,  born  October  26,  1906,  in  Stamford,  Connect- 
icut, now  attending  McBurney  School,  New  York. 


Albert  Hutchinson  Putney 

Chief  of  the  Division  of  Near  Eastern  Affairs,  Department  of  State, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Residence,  3408  Thirteenth  Street,  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Putney  is  the  son  of  Albert  Baker  and  Sarah  Bliss  (Abbott) 
Putney,  who  were  married  December  25,  1869.  The  father 
(born  August  28,  1841,  in  Bow,  New  Hampshire)  has  lived  in 
Boston  or  Newton,  Massachusetts,  since  about  1871,  and  during 
most  of  his  business  life  was  owner  of  a  carpet  store  in  Boston. 
On  his  father's  side  the  family  can  be  traced  to  John  Putney, 
who  was  living  in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  before  1670;  on  his 
mother's  side  he  is  descended  from  Peter  Brown,  one  of  the 
Mayflower  company.  Sarah  B.  (Abbott)  Putney  was  born  June 
15,  1847,  m  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  and  died  May  14, 
1892,  in  Newton.  Her  ancestors  came  to  this  country  from 
England  about  1660. 

Albert  H.  Putney  was  born  September  28,  1872,  in  Boston,  and 


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339 


was  prepared  at  the  Newton  High  School.  He  received  a  dis- 
sertation Senior  appointment,  two-year  honors  in  political  science, 
history,  and  law,  was  a  Townsend  speaker,  and  a  member  of  the 
Yale  Union. 


ALBERT    H.    PUTNEY 


After  two  years  at  Boston  University  he  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  and  was  admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  Bar.  From  1895 
to  early  in  1898  he  practiced  in  Boston  but,  owing  to  ill  health,  was 
forced  to  give  up  his  work  and  moved  to  Sioux  Falls,  South 
Dakota.  In  1899  he  resumed  practice  in  Chicago  and,  with  the 
exception  of  one  year,  1903-04,  when  he  was  in  the  office  of  the 
attorney-general  of  the  Philippine  Islands,  remained  there  until 
1913.  In  addition  to  his  practice  he  was,  from  1900  to  1912,  a 
professor  at  the  Illinois  College  of  Law,  and  from  1904  had  the 
added  duties  of  dean.  Since  1913  he  has  been  chief  of  the  Divi- 
sion of  Near  Eastern  Affairs  in  the  Department  of  State,  Wash- 
ington, and  has  continued  his  teaching  as  a  professor  in  the 
National  University  Law  School. 

His  writings,  which  have  been  entirely  professional,  are :  "Law 
Library"  (an  outline  of  law  in  twelve  volumes,  25,000  sets  of 
which  have  been  sold),  1908;   "United  States  Constitutional  His- 


340  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

tory  and  Law,"  1908  (used  as  textbook  in  several  law  schools)  ; 
"Currency,  Banking,  and  Exchange,"  1909;  "Bar  Examination 
Review,"  1910;  "Government  in  the  United  States"  (published 
by  the  Government  for  use  as  textbook  in  the  public  schools  of 
the  Philippines)  ;  "Foreign  Commercial  Laws,"  etc.  He  is  joint 
author  with  Senator  J.  H.  Lewis  of  a  "Handbook  of  Election 
Laws,"  and  has  written  many  articles  which  have  been  published 
in  the  Yale  Law  Journal,  Bench  and  Bar,  etc. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  National  Press  Club  and  Chicago  Press 
Club,  and  belongs  to  the  Masons,  Odd  Fellows,  and  Knights 
of  Pythias. 

He  was  married  April  6,  191 1,  in  Chicago,  to  Pearl  L.,  daugh- 
ter of  Jesse  O.  and  Ida  J.  (Meek)  Avery.  They  have  no 
children. 

Harry  Campbell  Quintard 

Conducting  a  magazine  subscription  agency,  70  Grove  Street, 
Stamford,  Connecticut 

Quintard  and  his  brother,  Charles  Granville  Quintard,  are  the 
children  of  Henry  Ferris  and  Mary  Jane  (Campbell)  Quin- 
tard, who  were  married  in  December,  1868.  The  father  (born 
April  10,  1845,  in  Greenwich,  Connecticut)  is  a  retired  farmer  of 
Sound  Beach.  He  is  descended  from  the  French  Huguenots  who 
settled  at  New  Rochelle  in  the  seventeenth  century.  The  mother 
was  born  July  10,  1845,  m  Fairfield,  and  died  July  24,  1914,  in 
Glenbrook,  Connecticut.  Her  father  came  from  County  Ayr, 
Scotland. 

Harry  C.  Quintard  was  born  September  19,  1869,  in  Green- 
wich, and  was  prepared  at  the  Stamford  High  School  and  at 
Hudson  River  Institute,  Claverack,  New  York.  He  received  a 
dissertation  Junior  and  an  oration  Senior  appointment. 

From  1893  to  1901  he  taught  at  the  University  School,  Bridge- 
port, and  then  entered  business.  He  was  first  with  the  Non- 
pareil Cork  Manufacturing  Company  of  Bridgeport  and  from 
1906  to  191 3  was  assistant  manager  of  the  New  York  office 
of  the  insulation  department  of  the  Armstrong  Cork  Com- 
pany of  Pittsburgh.  In  February,  191 3,  he  resigned  this  position 
on  account  of  ill  health  and  in  the  fall  opened  a  magazine  sub- 
scription agency,  which  he  conducts  from  his  home  and  for  the 
most  part  by  mail. 

In  politics  he  is  an  Independent  Republican. 


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34i 


He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church,  Stamford, 
has  been  a  member  of  its  various  administrative  boards  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Men's  Club,  and  is  now  a  deacon. 


HARRY    C.    QUINTARD 


He  was  married  June  28,  1894,  in  South  Britain,  Connecticut, 
to  Ada  M.,  daughter  of  Samuel  Phineas  Averill,  a  farmer,  and 
Julia  Tyler  (Mitchell)  Averill.  They  had  three  children: 
Dorothy,  born  February  4,  1896;  Elizabeth,  born  November  13, 
1897,  and  Frank  Averill,  born  March  22,  1900.  Mrs.  Quintard 
died  October  8,  1905. 

He  was  married  January  7,  1909,  in  Stamford,  to  Frances 
Isabel,  daughter  of  Samuel  Ferris  and  Frances  (Hoyt)  Scofield. 
A  daughter,  Virginia,  was  born  June  4,  1910. 

Quintard  writes :  "Nothing  could  be  fairer  than  our  patient 
Secretary's  invitation  to  kindly  oblige  with  a  little  prose,  a  bit  of 
verse,  perhaps,  or  just  a  few  yards  of  film.  It  sure  is  wide  open 
for  trouble.  On  'Writings'  we  score  a  goose  egg,  and  as  for 
'Corporate,  institutional,  and  philanthropic  interests'  we  are  again 
among  the  perfectly  useless.  But  it  is  our  own  fault  when  for 
the  small  sum  of  two  dollars  our  obituary  may  record  that,  'He 
was  a  member  of  the  National  Geographic  Society.' 


342  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

"I  have  more  or  less  family  life ;  more  than  Skee  and  less  than 
Morse.  Two  grown  daughters,  one  a  Junior  at  Connecticut 
College,  New  London,  the  other  in  the  midst  of  a  secretarial 
course  at  the  Beechwood  School,  Jenkintown,  Pennsylvania. 
Providentially  a  way  opened  for  them  to  have  these  advantages 
which  I  could  not  afford  to  give  them. 

"Son,  since  finishing  high  school  in  191 7,  has  been  employed  on 
a  farm  and  in  office  work  preparatory  to  tackling  a  19 19  version 
of  the  little  drama  entitled  Through  College  on  Nothing  a  Year/ 
Virginia,  age  eight,  completes  the  quartet. 

"As  to  'Travel/  I  have  not  been  west  of  Chicago,  east  of 
Boston,  south  of  Cincinnati  or  north  of  Montreal.  Tourist  rates 
are  still  too  high  and  I  have  done  nothing  to  intimidate  the  rail- 
roads into  giving  me  a  pass. 

"We  have  had  our  jolts  and  illnesses  and  are  painfully  aware 
that  the  dollar  does  not  purchase  as  much  as  it  did  in  the  consul- 
ship of  Dwight.  Such  simple  joys  as  living  the  golden  rule, 
having  the  respect  of  the  community  and  the  love  of  friends  do 
not  flash  like  a  star  shell,  but  the  glow  warms  and  does  not 
go  out. 

"My  vocation  (magazine  subscriptions  and  books  by  mail)  is  a 
refuge  for  the  lame,  halt,  blind,  and  completely  paralyzed,  hun- 
dreds of  whom  are  making  a  more  or  less  precarious  living 
thereby.  Eliminating  their  stereotyped  form  of  appeal,  I  have 
tried  to  have  my  methods  diffuse  an  atmosphere  of  cheerfulness, 
originality,  and  business-like  vigor  that  would  be  refreshing. 

"The  physical  jolt  which  came  in  19 12  menaces  still.  Those 
who  have  personal  knowledge  of  its  vagaries  know  the  life- 
long sacrifices  that  must  be  made  to  keep  it  in  subjection.  I 
write  this  in  bed  on  the  porch  at  ten  above  zero.  It  is  some  com- 
fort to  be  told  that  I  am  making  a  good  fight.  As  I  told  you  in 
Twenty-three  Years  After/  '93's  support  has  been  a  great  factor 
in  making  it.     If  I  need  more  of  it,  I  know  it  is  there. 

"It  is  not  my  aim  or  aspiration  at  this  time  to  be  the  last  sur- 
viving member  of  '93.  I  will  leave  that  to  sturdier  men.  And  I 
daresay  that  in  the  maturity  of  fifty  years  we  shall  all  agree  that, 

We  live  in  deeds,  not  years ;   in  thoughts,  not  breaths ; 
In  feelings,  not  in  figures  on  a  dial. 
We  should  count  time  by  heart  throbs.    He  most  lives 
Who  thinks  most,  feels  the  noblest,  acts  the  best." 


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343 


Gerald  Laurence  Rathbone 

Lieutenant,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  Branch  Office,  Naval  Intelligence, 
San  Francisco,  California 

Vice-president  and  secretary  of  Macondray  &  Company,  149  California 
Street,  San  Francisco,  California 

Residence,  Burlingame,  California 

Rathbone  is  a  son  of  Henry  Reed  and  Clara  Hamilton  (Harris) 
Rathbone,  who  had  two  other  children :  Henry  Riggs  Rathbone, 
B.A.  Yale  1892,  and  Clara  Pauline  Rathbone  (died  in  May,  1918). 
The  father,  a  native  of  Albany,  New  York,  was  graduated  at 
Union  College  in  1857;  he 
served  in  the  Civil  War,  at- 
taining the  rank  of  Major  of 
Infantry.  He  has  lived  in 
Albany,  Washington,  and  var- 
ious cities  abroad.  Mrs. 
Rathbone  is  the  daughter  of 
Senator  Ira  Harris,  and  both 
father  and  mother  are  de- 
scended from  English  ances- 
tors who  settled  in  Connect- 
icut in  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury. The  family  afterwards 
moved  to  Albany,  New  York. 

Gerald  Rathbone  was  born 
August  26,  1 87 1,  in  Albany 
and  was  prepared  at  the 
Albany,  Washington,  and  va- 
rious cities  abroad.  Mrs. 
sachusetts,  and  at  Andover. 
He  was  a  member  of  the 
Triennial  Committee,  An- 
dover Club,  University  Club,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

From  1893  to  1895  he  worked  in  the  Cleveland  office  of  the 
Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  Railroad  Company,  and  since 
that  time  he  has  been  associated  with  Macondray  &  Company, 
export  and  import  commission  insurance,  San  Francisco.  He 
now  fills  the  positions  of  vice-president  and  secretary. 


GERALD   L.    RATHBONE 


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In  November,  1898,  he  was  appointed  volunteer  aide  to  Gen- 
eral Greene  and  accompanied  him  to  Manila.  When  the  latter 
was  ordered  home  Rathbone  traveled  in  the  Orient  for  a  short 
time  in  the  interest  of  his  business.  In  1918  he  received  a  com- 
mission as  Lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force  and  was 
assigned  to  the  Branch  Office  of  Naval  Intelligence  at  San  Fran- 
cisco, ranking  as  second  in  command. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Union,  University  and  Bur- 
lingame  Country  clubs. 

He  was  married  June  30,  1908,  in  San  Francisco,  to  Gertrude 
Greenwood,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Greenwood) 
Josselyn.     They  have  no  children. 


George  Howard  Rice 

Lawyer,  Room  604,  44  Broad  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Scranton,   Pennsylvania 

Rice  is  the  son  of  Gilbert  L.  Rice.     He  was  born  September 

22,  1867,  in  Springfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  prepared  for 
Yale  at  Monson  Academy, 
Monson,  Massachusetts.  In 
college  he  received  a  disserta- 
tion Junior  and  high  oration 
Senior  appointment,  and  one- 
year  honors  in  political 
science. 

For  two  years  after  gradua- 
tion he  taught  at  San  Mateo, 
California.  The  next  year  he 
was  a  lawyer  at  Phoenix,  and 
district  attorney  of  Gila 
County,  Arizona,  and  then 
was  postmaster  and  store- 
keeper in  Globe,  Arizona. 
From  1898  to  19 10  he  prac- 
ticed law  in  Scranton,  Penn- 
sylvania, part  of  the  time  in 
george  h.  rice  offices   with   Frank   E.    Don- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  345 


nelly,  '93,  though  an  actual  partnership  was  never  arranged. 
During  that  period  he  was  also  director  and  secretary  of 
the  Fargo  and  Moorhead  Street  Railway  Company,  Fargo, 
North  Dakota,  and  of  the  Harrison  Silk  Manufacturing  Company, 
and  the  Chenango  Silk  Company,  of  Scranton,  Pennsylvania.  In 
May,  1904,  he  was  elected  solicitor  of  Dickson  City,  Pennsylvania. 
In  1908  he  was  vice-president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association 
of  Scranton,  Pennsylvania.  In  1910  he  moved  to  New  York  City. 
The  New  York  City  directory  gives  the  address  used  above. 

He  was  married  December  2,  1896,  to  Agnes  Graham,  daughter 
of  George  B.  Reynolds  of  Scranton,  Pennsylvania.  They  have 
had  three  children:  a  son,  born  December  2.7,  1897,  who  has 
since  died;  a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  born  June  21,  1899,  and  a 
second  daughter,  Eleanor,  born  August  31,  1902. 


John  Trumbull  Robinson 

Partner  in  the  firm  of  Robinson,  Robinson  &  Cole,  lawyers, 
11  Central  Row,  Hartford,  Connecticut 

Residence,  1283  Asylum  Avenue,  Hartford,  Connecticut 

The  Robinson  family  traces  its  descent  to  William  Brew- 
ster, of  the  Mayflower  company,  and  to  Thomas  Robin- 
son, who  settled  in  Guilford,  Connecticut,  about  1667.  Our 
classmate's  father,  Henry  C.  Robinson,  Yale  '53,  was  born 
August  28,  1832,  in  Hartford,  and  died  in  that  city  February  14, 
1900.  His  brother,  Lucius  F.  Robinson,  was  Yale  '43,  and  two 
of  his  sisters  married  J.  Hammond  Trumbull,  '42,  and  Judge 
Nathaniel  Shipman,  '48,  three  of  whose  sons  are  Yale  graduates. 
After  graduation  from  college  Mr.  Robinson  took  up  the  study 
and  practice  of  law  in  which  he  was  eminently  successful,  being 
well-known  as  a  public  orator  and  was  active  in  both  state  and 
national  politics,  served  as  Mayor  of  Hartford  from  1872  to 
1874,  and  Republican  nominee  for  Governor  in  1876.  He  was 
closely  identified  with  the  business,  philanthropic,  and  educa- 
tional interests  of  the  city.  On  August  28,  1862,  he  married 
Eliza  Niles,  daughter  of  John  F.  and  Eliza  (Smith)  Trum- 
bull, and  had  five  children:  Lucius  F.  Robinson,  '85  (his 
sons,  Lucius  F.,  Jr.,  and  Barclay  Robinson,  members  of  Yale 
191 8  and  1919,  are  absent  for  war  service)  ;  Lucy  Trumbull 
Robinson  (married  Sidney  T.  Miller;  their  son  is  Sidney  T.  Mil- 
ler, Jr.,  1916,  now  serving  in  the  U.  S.  Army)  ;   Henry  S.  Robin- 


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son,  '89;  John  T.  Robinson,  '93,  and  Mary  Shipman  Robinson 
(married  Adrian  V.  S.  Lambert,  '93).  Mrs.  Robinson  (born 
July  15,  1833,  in  Stonington,  Connecticut,  died  June  25,  19 16,  in 


JOHN   T.   ROBINSON 


Hartford)  was  a  descendant  of  John  Trumbull,  who  came  from 
Newcastle-on-Tyne  about  1637,  and  settled  at  Rowley,  Massa- 
chusetts; he  died  in  1657. 

John  T.  Robinson  was  born  April  25,  1871,  in  Hartford,  and 
was  prepared  at  the  Hartford  Public  High  School.  He 
received  dispute  appointments,  a  first  TenEyck  Prize  at  Junior 
Exhibition,  was  fence  orator  in  Freshman  year,  and  a  member 
of  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

He  studied  law  in  Hartford  and  was  admitted  to  the  Connect- 
icut Bar  in  1896.  He  practiced  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Rob- 
inson &  Robinson  until  191 3,  when  the  name  was  changed  to 
Robinson,  Robinson  &  Cole.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Connecticut 
General  Life  Insurance  Company  and  of  the  Hartford  City  Gas 
Light  Company. 

He  is  a  Republican.  He  has  held  public  office  as  fol- 
lows: executive  secretary,  Connecticut,  1901-02;  charity  com- 
missioner,   Hartford,    1902-04,    and    delegate-at-large,    National 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  347 


Republican  Convention,  1904;  chairman,  Hartford  Republican 
Town  Committee,  1904-05,  and  U.  S.  attorney,  District  of  Con- 
necticut, 1908-12.  He  is  serving  as  government  appeal  agent 
under  the  draft  law  for  Local  Board  No.  I,  and  is  a  director  and 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Hartford  Chapter  of 
the  American  Red  Cross.  He  is  chairman  of  the  Hartford  Com- 
mittee for  National  Prohibition  and  is  a  member  of  the  South 
Congregational  Church  of  Hartford. 

He  is  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Hartford 
for  1917-18,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Hartford  Club,  Hartford 
Golf  Club,  Graduates  Club  (New  Haven),  Republican  Club, 
and  Tourilli  Fish  and  Game  Club  of  Quebec. 

He  was  married  April  25, 1905,  in  Utica,  New  York,  to  Gertrude 
Doolittle,  daughter  of  Judge  Alfred  Conkling  Coxe  and  Maryette 
(Doolittle)  Coxe,  and  sister  of  Alfred  C.  Coxe,  Jr.,  Yale  1901. 
They  have  two  children:  Gertrude  Trumbull,  born  February  12, 
1906,  and  John  Trumbull,  Jr.,  born  March  20,  191 5. 


Joseph  Roby 

Physician,  234  Culver  Road,  Rochester,  New  York 

Roby  is  a  son  of  Sidney  Breeze  and  Sarah  Eliza  (Loop)  Roby, 
who  were  married  September  30,  1857,  and  had  four  other  chil- 
dren: Margaret  Breeze  (Roby)  Curtis,  Samuel  Sidney  Breeze 
Roby,  Yale  '88,  William  Sterling  Roby,  '90  S.,  and  Catherine 
Graves  (Roby)  Dorrance.  The  Roby  family  came  from  England 
and  settled  in  Massachusetts.  If  his  grandfather  had  not  married 
into  the  Breeze  family  our  classmate  thinks  he  would  be  the  sixth 
Joseph  Roby  in  line.  Through  this  marriage  he  is  related  to  Sam- 
uel Finley  Breeze  Morse,  B.A.  1810,  the  inventor.  Sidney  B. 
Roby  (born  June  2,  1830,  in  Albany,  New  York;  died  May  28, 
1897,  in  White  Plains)  was  in  business  as  a  partner  in  Roby  & 
Stevens  and  Roby  &  Carey,  and  owner,  S.  B.  Roby  &  Company 
and  Rochester  Wheel  Company.  Mrs.  Roby  (born  September  30, 
1834,  in  Elmira,  New  York)  is  the  daughter  of  Peter  and  Eliza 
Irene  (Ross)  Loop,  and  granddaughter  of  General  William 
Ross,  who  was  given  a  sword  by  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  for 
distinguished  service  at  the  time  of  the  Wyoming  massacre. 

Joseph  Roby  was  born  August  19,  1871,  in  Rochester,  and  was 
prepared  at  the  Rochester  High  School  and  at  St.  Paul's  School, 
Concord,    New    Hampshire.     He    received    a    colloquy    Senior 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


appointment,  was  secretary  of  the  Football  Association  in  Junior 
year,  a  Cup  man,  a  member  of  the  Junior  Prom  Committee,  Eta 
Phi,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones. 


JOSEPH   ROBY 


He  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  Columbia,  in  1896,  being  awarded  the  Harsen 
Prize  of  $500  for  maintaining  the  highest  scholarship  grade 
throughout  the  course.  His  medical  internship  was  served  in  the 
New  York  Hospital,  the  surgical  in  the  Nursery  and  Child's  Hos- 
pital, New  York.  He  has  practiced  in  Rochester  since  1899,  and 
is  attending  physician  to  the  Rochester  General  Hospital  (on  the 
staff  since  1899),  and  to  the  Rochester  Municipal  Hospital  and 
Orphan  Asylum,  and  consulting  physician  at  the  Social  Settle- 
ment Dispensary. 

He  has  been  specially  interested  in  securing  proper  inspection 
and  distribution  of  the  milk  supply  of  the  city  of  Rochester  and 
has  written  considerable  on  that  subject.  He  is  a  deputy  health 
officer  and,  since  March,  1918,  acting  health  officer. 

In  politics  he  is  always  a  Republican  locally ;  in  national  issues 
more  often  a  Democrat.  He  adds  further:  "I  am  a  free  trader 
and  more  or  less  of  a  philosophical  anarchist." 


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He  usually  attends  St.  Luke's  Church.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Genesee  Valley  and  University  clubs. 

He  was  married  December  2,  1902,  in  Rochester,  to  Alice 
Montgomery,  daughter  of  Clinton  Rogers,  wholesale  and  retail 
dealers  in  carpets  and  furniture,  and  Fannie  (Cooper)  Rogers. 
They  have  three  children:  Joseph,  Jr.,  born  February  20,  1906; 
Helen  Rogers,  born  October  25,  191 2,  and  Rochester  Ross,  born 
October  19,  1914. 

Roby  writes :  "On  the  whole  we  are  an  extremely  happy  fam- 
ily. My  mother  at  present  lives  with  us.  We  have  an  attractive 
corner  house  on  one  of  'the'  streets  in  Rochester — with  all  the 
modern  improvements  of  heat,  light,  and  electricity  and  inci- 
dentally bath  tubs  and  some  water.  A  small  shed  in  the  rear 
used  to  house  a  Ford — now  a  Packard.  A  Saxon  is  kept  across 
the  way.  The  older  boy,  Joe,  Jr.,  is  quite  a  husky  lad  weighing 
one  hundred  pounds  stripped  at  twelve.  Occasionally  stands 
first  in  a  class  of  four  or  five,  but  usually  last.  Apparently 
inherits  his  father's  brains  and  good  looks.  The  others  also 
inherit  their  father's  good  looks — too  young  to  tell  about  their 
brains.  Just  at  present  we  are  thinking  and  talking  about  only 
one  thing.  Avant  la  Guerre  we  mostly  talked  about  paying  our 
bills.  In  1916  I  had  an  extremely  interesting  but  short  trip  to 
Europe  (my  first)  visiting  France,  Italy,  and  Switzerland  in  com- 
pany with  Bayne,  '92.  We  motored  from  Marseilles  to  Menton 
through  Cannes,  Nice  and  Monte  Carlo  and  again  over  the  Italian 
coast  road  from  Vinti  Milia  to  Genoa.  Superb  trip.  Don't  miss 
it  if  you  ever  get  the  chance.  No  other  travels  except  to  Buffalo, 
Niagara  Falls,  or  New  York  City.  I  have  no  form  of  recreation 
or  special  interest  or  hobbies  except  the  medical  business  and 
perhaps  a  slight  interest  in  farming,  especially  milk  farming. 
My  accomplishments  have  been  almost  'nil,'  two  or  three  mechan- 
ical devices,  one  for  finding  tubercle  bacilli  in  spinal  fluid  and  an 
apparatus  for  giving  spinal  and  intravenous  injections.  How- 
ever, in  a  medical  way  I  think  I  have  more  or  less  'arrived/ 
Consulting  work  is  growing  all  the  time  and  my  opinion  is 
apparently  valued  by  some.  I  have  no  other  plan  except  to  try  to 
do  my  duty  in  my  present  situation  and  leave  a  small  amount  for 
the  family. 

"I  think  it  was  at  the  New  York  City  winter  meeting  in  1917 
that  Sam  Spencer  asked  me  if  I  had  come  to  any  conclusion  as 
to  what  it  was  all  about.     I  had  to  confess  that  to  me  life  was  as 


350  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

much  of  an  enigma  as  ever.  However,  some  philosophical  and 
governmental  questions  very  much  interest  me.  As  to  religion — 
a  future  life,  etc. — for  myself  I  have  put  those  things  down  as 
unknowable  and  consequently  not  worth  worrying  about.  For 
some  time  past  I  have  been  convinced  that  religion  has  abso- 
lutely nothing  to  do  with  morality  and  since  August,  1914,  I  have 
been  quite  sure  of  my  previous  convictions. 

Before  August,  19 14, 1  was  a  pacifist  and  I  hope  to  be  so  again. 
I  think  we  ought  to  have  gotten  into  the  war  when  Germany  went 
through  Belgium,  but  I  think  that  the  statement  that  preparation 
for  war  insures  you  of  peace  is  perfectly  absurd. 

"I  believe  very  decidedly  in  the  self  determination  of  nations 
and  also  of  individuals.  I  believe  that  everyone  has  or  rather 
ought  to  have  the  right  to  life,  liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of  happi- 
ness so  long  as  they  do  not  interfere  with  other  peoples'  right  to 
the  same  things.  Consequently  the  thing  that  I  have  gotten  to 
hate  most  is  socialism,  and  to  love  most  is  anarchy  (or  individ- 
ualism). I  do  not  believe  in  prohibition  and  I  am  an  ardent 
free  trader.  I  do  not  believe  in  an  income  tax  and  my  anarchy 
goes  so  far  that  I  am  not  quite  sure  that  I  believe  in  public 
schools.  I  think  this  government  was  formed  more  or  less  with 
this  idea  of  personal  liberty  and  that  we  have  not  'progressed' 
but  retrograded  when  we  try  to  force  our  opinions  on  our  own  or 
other  peoples. 

"If  we  are  honest  and  are  going  to  continue  to  talk  about 
Liberty  we  have  got  to  see  to  it  that  there  are  no  more 
Philippines — Panama  Canals — Porto  Ricos — Santo  Domingos — 
Haiti s,  etc. 

"  'You  cannot  combine  injustice  and  brutality  abroad  with  jus- 
tice and  humanity  at  home'  any  more  than  'this  nation  can  exist 
half  slave  and  half  free/  " 


Derby  Rogers 

New  Canaan,  Connecticut 

His  parents  were  John  and  Harriet  Moore  (Francis)  Rogers, 
who  were  married  April  26,  1865,  and  had  six  other  children: 
John  Rogers,  B.A.  1887,  Ph.B.  1888,  M.D.  Columbia  1891  (his 
son  is  John  Rogers,  Jr.,  1920S.)  ;  Katherine  Rebecca;  Charles 
Francis  Rogers,  Ph.B.  1890;  Alexander  Parker  Rogers,  Ph.B. 
1894,  C.E.  Columbia  1898;    David  Francis  Rogers,  B.A.   ic 


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35i 


and  Laura  Derby  Rogers  (died  November  1,  1897).  John 
Rogers,  Sr.  (born  October  30,  1829,  in  Salem,  Massachusetts; 
died  July  26,  1904,  in  New  Canaan,  Connecticut),  was  the  son  of 
John   and  Sarah   Ellen    (Derby)    Rogers,  and   descended   from 


DERBY    ROGERS 


English  emigrants  who  settled  in  Ipswich  in  1636.  In  i860  Mr. 
Rogers  began  modeling  small  statuette  groups,  mostly  war  sub- 
jects, while  the  war  lasted  and  later  social  subjects,  which  are 
known  as  "Rogers'  Groups" ;  numbers  of  these  have  been  repro- 
duced in  composition.  In  larger  works  he  made  a  statue  of 
General  Reynolds  for  Philadelphia,  and  one  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 
His  wife,  who  was  born  August  18,  1841,  in  New  York  City,  is 
a  daughter  of  Charles  Stephen  and  Catherine  Rebecca  (Jewett) 
Francis.  The  first  Francis  ancestor  came  from  England  in 
1636  and  settled  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts. 

Derby  Rogers  was  born  December  15,  1871,  in  New  York  City, 
and  was  prepared  at  Dr.  King's  School  in  Stamford.  He 
received  dissertation  appointments,  a  Townsend  Prize,  was  presi- 
dent of  the  University  and  Dunham  Boat  clubs,  a  member  of  the 
Junior  Prom  Committee,  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and 
Skull  and  Bones. 


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He  was  a  student  in  the  Harvard  Law  School  for  two  years 
and  then  entered  the  office  of  Parsons,  Shepard  &  Ogden,  New 
York  City,  where  he  remained  until  1898,  having  been  admitted  to 
the  New  York  Bar  in  1896.  In  June,  1900,  he  did  some  tutoring 
in  Bourne,  Massachusetts,  but  from  1900  to  1907  was  unable  to 
work.  In  1907-08  he  lived  at  New  Canaan  and  was  engaged  in 
teaching  in  Stamford,  and  from  1909  to  1913  he  was  a  tutor  in 
the  family  of  Mr.  John  Sanford,  Yale  '72,  of  Amsterdam,  New 
York. 

He  writes :  "I  have  not  been  very  well,  and  have  been  living  in 
the  country  to  recover  my  strength.  I  have  not  been  able,  there- 
fore, to  form  any  serious  plans  other  than  recuperating." 

Rogers  is  a  Republican.     He  is  a  Supply  Sergeant  in  the  New 
Canaan  Company  of  the  Connecticut  State  Guard. 
He  has  not  married. 


*  Robert  Edwin  Rowley 

Died  March  14,  1897 


ROBERT   E.    ROWLEY 


Robert  E.  Rowley,  the  son 
of  E.  A.  Rowley,  was  born 
March  30,  1869,  in  Williams- 
port,  Pennsylvania,  and  pre- 
pared for  Yale  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Massa- 
chusetts. 

After  graduation  he  became 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Row- 
ley and  Hermance,  manufac- 
turers of  wood-working 
machinery,  in  William  sport, 
Pennsylvania.  He  died  of 
pneumonia,  March  14,  1897, 
at  his  home. 

He  was  married  December 
3,  1895,  in  Williamsport, 
Pennsylvania,  to  Anne  Cram- 
mond,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
E.  A.  Woods,  D.D.  They 
had  no  children. 


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353 


Louis  Barcroft  Runk 

Major,  Ordnance  Department,  U.  S.  A. 
Lawyer,  1832  Land  Title  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 
Residence,  407  West  Price  Street,  Germantown,  Philadelphia 

Runk  is  a  son  of  William  M.  and  Elizabeth  Cogswell  (Hill) 
Runk,  who  were  married  January  11,  1872,  and  had  four  other 
children:  Marshall  Hill;  Elizabeth  Cogswell  (Runk)  Hall  ; 
William  TenBroeck  (died  March  4,  1885),  and  Florence  Lincoln 


LOUIS    B.    RUNK 


(died  March  31,  1885).  The  first  American  ancestor,  Jacob 
Runk  (Runck),  who  came  over  in  the  ship  Winter  Galley  from 
Rotterdam  with  252  Palatines,  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  at 
Philadelphia,  September  5,  1738,  and  bought  a  plantation  of 
222  acres,  now  known  as  the  Robert  Fisher  Farm  in  Amwell 
Township,  Hunterdon  County,  New  Jersey.  William  M.  Runk 
(born  October  11,  1846,  in  Kingwood,  New  Jersey;  died  Octo- 
ber 5,  1892,  in  St.  David's,  Pennsylvania)  was  the  eldest  son  of 
Peter  TenBroeck  and  Fanny  (Barcroft)  Runk.  He  was  in  the 
drygoods  business  as  a  member  of  the  firms  of  Barcroft,  Beaver 


354  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE  

&  Company,  Barcroft  &  Company,  and  Darlington,  Runk  &  Com- 
pany, and  was  a  director  of  the  Penn  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany. On  June  3,  1886,  he  married  Evelyn  TenBroeck  Runk,  and 
there  were  three  children  by  this  marriage.  Our  classmate's 
mother  (born  November  5,  1850,  in  Philadelphia,  and  died  in 
that  city  March  1,  1885)  was  the  youngest  daughter  of  Marshall 
Hill  of  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  and  Harriet  Smallwood 
(Field)  Hill  of  Philadelphia.  The  family  traces  its  ancestry  to 
Peter  Hill  of  England,  who  sailed  from  Plymouth  in  the  ship 
Huntress  under  John  Winter  and  landed  in  America  with  his 
son  Roger,  March  22,  1632-33.  He  settled  on  the  Saco  River 
at  the  place  now  known  as  Biddeford,  Maine. 

Louis  Barcroft  Runk  was  born  June  13,  1873,  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Episcopal  Academy  in 
Philadelphia.  He  attended  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  one 
year  before  entering  the  Sophomore  Class  at  Yale  in  1890.  He 
received  oration  appointments,  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
and  was  a  member  of  Zeta  Psi. 

He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  the*  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania in  1896,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  has  always 
practiced  in  Philadelphia.  In  January,  1901,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  firm  of  Read  &  Pettit,  which  firm,  in  December,  1908, 
became  Read,  Gill  &  Runk.  On  July  1,  19 12,  he  withdrew  from 
this  firm  and  formed  a  partnership  with  Francis  Fisher  Kane, 
under  the  name  of  Kane  &  Runk;  this  firm  was  dissolved 
January  1,  191 7,  and  he  practiced  independently  until  entering 
the  Army. 

He  was  commissioned  a  Major,  Ordnance  Reserve  Corps, 
August  28,  191 7,  and  was  at  once  assigned  to  duty  at  the  works  of 
the  Remington  Arms  Union-Metallic  Cartridge  Company,  Bridge- 
port, as  Inspector  of  Ordnance,  and  was,  in  addition  to  the 
Bridgeport  Works,  in  charge  of  the  company's  Hoboken  (New 
Jersey)  Works  from  November  17  to  December  3,  19 17.  On  the 
latter  date  he  was  transferred  from  Bridgeport  to  Washington  to 
the  Office  of  the  Chief  Inspector  of  Small  Arms  Ammunition 
which  office  was,  on  January  14,  1918,  merged  into  the  Inspection 
Division.  He  was  transferred  to  the  Watervliet  Arsenal  in 
August.  He  has  recently  been  appointed  head  of  the  Information 
Branch  of  the  Inspection  Division  of  the  Ordnance  Department 
and  is  also  his  Division  Liaison  Officer.  He  acted  as  Chairman 
of  the  Division  Third  Liberty  Loan  Committee,  which  secured 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  355 

subscriptions  for  the  loan  from  representatives  of  the  Division 
throughout  the  United  States  and  Canada  aggregating  $1,104,000, 
ranking  second  in  the  Ordnance  Department  in  its  grand  total  and 
being  exceeded  by  another  Division  only  through  one  very  large 
subscription. 

In  1903  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Yale  for  graduate 
work  in  economics.  He  has  been  an  active  member  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  Philadelphia,  serving  as  an  officer,  includ- 
ing a  two-year  period  as  its  president,  and  on  various  committees. 
In  1916-17  he  was  corresponding  secretary  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
Association  of  Philadelphia. 

He  is  a  Democrat.  In  1902  he  was  nominated  on  the  Demo- 
cratic and  Municipal  League  tickets  for  State  Senator  but  was 
not  elected.  From  1910  to  1912  and  from  1916  to  1918  he  was 
secretary  of  the  Law  Association  of  Philadelphia  and  a  member 
of  its  Board  of  Governors  from  1913  to  191 5. 

He  was  corresponding  secretary  of  the  Church  Club  of  Phila- 
delphia from  1899  to  1904  and  recording  secretary  from  1906 
to  1913;  he  was  elected  church  advocate  of  the  Diocese  of 
Pennsylvania  on  March  6,  1914,  which  office  he  stills  holds. 

He  belongs  to  the  University  Club,  Philadelphia,  Cosmos  Club, 
Washington,  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
and  Order  of  the  Founders  and  Patriots  of  America. 

He  was  married  October  23,  1907,  in  Philadelphia,  to  Mary 
Amelia,  daughter  of  William  Washington  Rankin,  a  lumber  mer- 
chant, and  Maria  Amelia  (Jefferies)  Rankin.  They  have  three 
children:  Elizabeth  Hill,  born  December  10,  1908;  Mary  Amelie, 
born  November  24,  1910,  and  John  TenBroeck,  born  January  30, 
I9I5- 

Runk  writes:  "I  have  had  many  plans  and  aims  that  remain 
unfulfilled — some  of  them  beyond  my  reach,  and  yet  the  planning 
and  striving  to  attain  have  been  well  worth  while.  I  have 
recalled  often  the  text  of  President  Dwight's  Baccalaureate 
Sermon  to  our  Class,  'See  that  ye  lose  not  the  things  which  we 
have  wrought/  To  us  he  always  gave  of  his  best.  Those 
things  which  Yale  'wrought'  most  for  me  have  been— the  love 
of  beauty  for  its  own  sake,  the  desire  for  truth  and  the  eager- 
ness to  follow  wherever  she  may  lead,  and  the  willingness  to 
make  personal  sacrifices  and,  if  need  be,  to  suffer,  whenever 
public  duty  called." 


356 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Herbert  Irving  Sackett 

President,  H.   I.    Sackett  Electric   Company,   and   Sackett   Electric   Con- 
struction Company,  256  Pearl   Street,  Buffalo,  New  York 

Residence,  12  Brantford  Place,  Buffalo,  New  York 

Sackett  is  the  nephew  of  Professor  D.  P.  Sackett  and  was  born 
August  8,  1 87 1,  in  Oakland,  California,  where  he  attended  the 

Sackett    School.     In    college 
r  he    received    a    first    dispute 

Junior  appointment. 

The  year  after  graduation 
he  was  with  the  Buffalo  and 
Niagara  Falls  Electric  Power 
Company,  Niagara  Falls, 
New*  York.  Since  1894  he 
has  lived  in  Buffalo,  New 
York,  being  a  contractor  for 
electrical  construction  and 
equipment  and  dealer  in  elec- 
trical supplies.  In  August, 
1899,  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  Electrical  Contractors' 
Association  of  Buffalo.  Since 
June,  1903,  he  has  been  Cap- 
tain of  the  74th  Regiment, 
National  Guard  of  New  York. 
The  business  conducted  under 
the  trade  name  of  H.  I. 
Sackett  was  divided  and  in- 
corporated under  the  two  concerns  above  mentioned  in  June,  191 1. 
He  was  married  September  30,  1895,  in  Buffalo,  New  York, 
to  Lillian  Gertrude,  daughter  of  Charles  B.  Huck.  They  had  one 
son,  Russell  Pierce,  born  November  4,  1896. 

He  was  married  a  second  time,  July  2,  1902,  to  Lillian,  daughter 
of  William  Stevens  of  Buffalo,  New  York.  Mrs.  Sackett  died 
November  2,  1914. 


HERBERT    I.    SACKETT 


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357 


William  Clement  Scott 

Secretary  and  treasurer,  Newburgh  Planing  Mill  Company, 
Newburgh,  New  York 

William  C.  Scott  and  James  Bradley  Scott,  Yale  ex-'gs  L-> 
are  the  only  children  of  David  Alexander  and  Harriet  Elizabeth 
(Bradley)  Scott,  who  were  married  October  17,  1867.  The 
father  (born  August  18,  1825,  in  Montgomery,  New  York; 
died  August  24,  1890,  at  Indian  Lake,  New  York)  graduated 
at  Wesleyan  University  in  1846  and  was  a  lawyer  by  profes- 
sion. He  was  surrogate  of  Orange  County,  1859-68,  and  a 
school  trustee,  Newburgh,  1887-90.  His  ancestors  came  from 
Dundee,  Scotland,  to  Montgomery,  New  York,  in  1788.  The 
mother  (born  in  1841  and  died  August  14,  1876,  in  Newburgh) 
was  of  English  ancestry. 

William  C.  Scott  was  born  February  21,  1869,  in  Newburgh, 
and  entered  college  from  Siglar's  Preparatory  School.  He 
received  second  dispute  appointments  in  Senior  year. 


WILLIAM    C.    SCOTT 


He   was   variously   employed   before    1899   when   he   became 
secretary,  treasurer,  and  a  director  of  the  Newburgh  Planing 


358  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Mill  Company,  the  positions  which  he  has  since  filled.  In  1908 
he  was  made  a  director  of  the  National  Bank  of  Newburgh. 

He  is  a  Republican.     He  belongs  to  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

His  clubs  are  the  Newburgh  City,  Powelton,  and  Yale  of  New 
York. 

He  was  married  October  20,  1897,  in  Newburgh,  to  Margaret 
LeFevre,  daughter  of  John  Schoonmaker,  a  merchant,  and  Mary 
(Vail)  Schoonmaker.  They  have  two  children:  Elizabeth 
Schoonmaker,  born  July  23,  1898,  and  William  Clement,  Jr., 
born  July  2,  1907. 

A  nephew,  Frederick  C.  Scott,  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1921. 


Samuel  Scoville,  Jr. 

Lawyer,  Pennsylvania  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 
Residence,  Haverford,  Pennsylvania 

Scoville  is  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Harriet  Eliza  (Beecher) 
Scoville,  who  were  married  September  25,  1861,  and  had  five 
other  children :  two  died  at  birth ;  William  Herbert  Scoville, 
Yale  '95,  Harriet  Beecher  (Scoville)  Devan,  Wellesley  '83,  and 
Ann  B.  Scoville,  who  studied  at  Wellesley  and  Oxford.  Samuel 
Scoville,  Sr.  (born  December  21,  1834,  in  West  Cornwall,  Con- 
necticut; died  April  15,  1902,  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania), 
graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1857  and  then  studied  at 
Andover  and  Union  Theological  Seminaries.  He  became  a  Con- 
gregational minister  and  served  churches  in  Norwich,  New  York 
(1860-1879),  Stamford,  Connecticut  (1879-1898),  and  Brooklyn, 
New  York  (1898-1902).  The  Scoville  family  came  to  this 
country  from  England,  but  they  came  originally  from  a  village, 
D'Escoville,  in  Normandy.  Mrs.  Scoville  (born  May  16,  1838, 
in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  died  in  19 12  in  Cornwall,  Con- 
necticut) was  the  daughter  of  Henry  Ward  and  Eunice  W. 
(Bullard)  Beecher,  sister  of  William  C.  Beecher,  Yale  '72,  and 
aunt  of  Harry  Beecher,  Yale  '85. 

Samuel  Scoville,  Jr.,  was  born  June  9,  1872,  in  Norwich,  New 
York,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Stamford  High  School.  He 
received  a  dispute  Junior  and  a  dissertation  Senior  appointment, 
was  vice-president  of  the  Chess  Club,  and  a  member  of  Chi 
Delta  Theta  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon.     He  was  on  the  Track 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


359 


Team  for  four  years,  won  the  Freshman  mile,  the  Varsity  mile 
twice,  the  Varsity  quarter-  and  half-mile,  and  cross-country 
championship,  the  lightweight  championship  in  boxing  and  his 
"Y"  in  the  Dual  Games  and  ran  third  in  the  mile  and  fourth  in 
the  quarter-mile  at  the  Intercollegiates. 


SAMUEL  SCOVILLE,  JR. 


He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  the  University  of  the 
State  of  New  York  in  1895,  and  practiced  in  New  York  until 
1903,  being  admitted  as  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Beecher  & 
Scoville  in  1899.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Pennsylvania  Bar  in 
1903  and  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  in  1910,  and 
has  since  maintained  his  offices  in  Philadelphia,  in  recent  years 
specializing  in  court  work,  especially  jury  trials.  He  is  an  officer 
and  director  in  a  number  of  corporations  in  New  York  and  Phila- 
delphia. The  Vicennial  Record  lists  his  various  activities  in  for- 
mer years. 

He  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Bryn  Mawr 
Presbyterian  Church,  a  director  of  the  American  Sunday  School 
Union,  a  member  of  the  Council  of  Boy  Scouts  of  Philadelphia, 
and  that  of  Delaware  and  Montgomery  counties,  the  Girl  Scouts 


360  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

of  Philadelphia,  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  Main  Line 
Forum. 

His  clubs  are  the  University,  Merion  Cricket,  Le  Coin  D'Or, 
and  Yale,  and  the  Franklin  Inn.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Geo- 
graphical Society  of  Philadelphia,  Delaware  Valley  Ornithological 

Club,    the    Browning    Society,    the 
^^g^HB^^^.  -^aw    Association    of    Philadelphia 

and    the   American    Ornithological 
Society. 

He  was  married  October  17, 
1899,  in  Philadelphia,  to  Katharine 
Gallaudet,  daughter  of  Rev.  Henry 
Clay  Trumbull,  D.D.,  and  Alice 
Cogswell  (Gallaudet)  Trumbull, 
sister  of  Charles  G.  Trumbull,  '93, 
and  a  cousin  of  Gallaudet  and  Rob- 
inson, '93.  They  have  had  five 
children :  Samuel,  3d,  born  Febru^ 
ary  19,  1902,  and  died  March  8,  1904;  Gurdon  Trumbull,  born 
November  1,  1904;  William  Beecher,  born  January  13,  1906; 
Henry  Ward  Beecher,  born  July  13,  1909,  and  Alice  Trumbull, 
born  July  3,  191 1. 

Scoville's  letter  follows:  "Our  honored  Secretary  advises  me 
that  the  Class  is  waiting  breathlessly  for  me  to  write  fully,  freely, 
and  unrestrainedly  about  myself  to  them.  In  fact  I  gather  from 
his  last  four  letters  that  it  is  difficult  for  most  of  you  to  do 
business  or  to  eat  and  sleep  with  any  comfort  until  I  unbosom 
myself  at  length.  I  must  say,  however,  that  I  have  some  doubts 
in  regard  to  the  Secretary's  statements.  Five  years  ago  in 
response  to  similar  entreaties  I  dredged  the  tides  of  my  troubled 
past  and  submitted  a  few  pages  of  the  resulting  jetsam  and 
flotsam.  My  efforts  were  received  with  loud  hoots  by  my  lov- 
ing classmates  and  with  rough,  coarse  jokes  from  the  perfidious 
Secretary.  So,  although  the  story  of  my  life  would  unques- 
tionably be  an  inspiration  to  you  all  yet  I  shall  confine  myself 
to  a  comparatively  few  pages  from  the  same — not  over  twenty 
or  thirty  at  the  outside. 

"The  first,  the  last,  and  the  intervening  matters  about  which 
I  wish  to  write  are  my  hobbies.  I  submit  that  when  a  man 
reaches  his  meridian  years  anything  that  makes  life  more  inter- 
esting and  vivid  and  enjoyable,  even  in  these  days  of  war  and 


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361 


wreck,  is  worth  chronicling.  Personally,  I  get  so  much  health 
and  happiness  from  them  all  that  I  am  glad  to  write  about  them. 
It  is  of  course  dangerous  for  a  professional  man  to  have  hobbies. 
Prospective  clients  or  patients  may  think  that  he  is  neglecting 
his  business  for  his  avocations.  In  order,  therefore,  to  prevent 
you  from  taking  your  crimes,  torts,  and  contracts  to  less  deserv- 
ing members  of  the  Class,  I  hasten  to  state  that  first,  last,  and 
all  the  time,  hobbies  or  no  hobbies,  I  am  a  lawyer  in  active 
practice  in  the  City  and  County  of  Philadelphia.  As  to 
said  hobbies  there  are  four,  to  wit :  scribbling,  books,  boys,  and 
birds.  Considering  them  seriatim  I  may  say  that  the  cacoethes 
scribendi  (you  will  remember  that  I  was  the  pride  and  pet  of 
St.  Moore,  Pliny  Peck,  Baldy  Wright  and  other  eminent 
Latinists)  early  attacked  me.  I  had  more  alleged  jokes  in  the 
Record  than  any  one  else  in  the  Class.  Inspired  by  the  poly- 
syllabic prose  of  Lemuel  Aiken  Welles,  and  the  passion  and 
pathos  of  Parsons  and  Winthrop  Dwight,  I  tried  for  the  Lit  and 
landed  among  the  'also  ran'  in  Chi  Delta  Theta.  That  has  been 
the  history  of  my  writing  ever  since.  I  have  had  printed  in  divers 
magazines  a  hundred  or  so  stories,  essays,  articles,  and  poems, 
quantities  of  newspaper  material  and  four  books  but — they  are  all 


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second  and  third  class.  Yet  I  can't  stop.  On  trains,  late  at  night, 
between  cases  in  court,  in  vacations,  on  holidays,  and  during  odd 
moments  I  must  be  always  scribbling,  with  the  faint  hope  ahead 
that  on  some  morrow-day  I  may  write  something  worthy  of  our 
Class. 

"Next  come  boys.     I  have  three  of  my  own  here  and  one  that 
waits  for  me  beyond,  to  say  nothing  of  a  little  girl  who  is  worth 


362  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

the  world  and  all  to  us.  I  have  always  liked  to  play  and  work 
and  talk  and  tramp  with  boys  and  since  leaving  college  have 
organized  and  run  a  dozen  or  so  boys'  clubs  and  bands  and 
troops  and  classes.  Of  late  years  the  Boy  Scouts  have  taken  up 
most  of  my  spare  time.  I  am  on  two  Boy  Scout  councils  and  for 
two  years  had  charge  of  all  the  nature  work  of  some  ten  thousand 
boys,  lecturing  to  different  groups  each  week,  writing  a  weekly 
nature  article  and  taking  them  on  nature-hikes  and  camping-trips 
whenever  possible.  I  once  persuaded  a  reformatory  to  let  me  take 
twenty-five  of  their  worst  boys  out  for  a  tramp,  a  swim,  and  a 
camp-fire.  They  all  came  back  safely  and  some  of  my  best 
friends  are  among  the  ex-boys  of  that  institution. 

"Next  come  books.  My  house,  my  office,  and  my  camp  are 
stacked  with  books  and  books  and  still  more  books.  To  me  they 
are  one  of  the  greatest  pleasures  of  life. 

"Last  of  all  come  birds,  which  to  me  mean  all  out-of-doors. 
Let  me  urge  any  of  you  who  may  find  life  a  little  tiresome  or 
who  are  over-worked  or  over-tempted  or  over-tried  to  get  out 
into  the  open.  With  a  smattering  knowledge  of  out-of-door 
subjects  I  spend  all  my  holiday  time  in  the  open  air.  Last  week 
(March)  I  went  down  to  Delaware  to  help  find  an  eagle's  nest. 
The  week  before  I  walked  forty-two  miles  in  the  snow  through 
the  mountains  in  a  day  and  a  half  to  see  the  first  raven's  nest  ever 
found  in  Pennsylvania,  and  last  summer  I  traveled  a  thousand 
miles  through  Canada,  birds-nesting.  One  year  two  of  us  caught 
and  photographed  and  described  practically  every  variety  of  snake 
in  eastern  America.  There  is  a  bog  in  New  Jersey  full  of  orchids, 
a  rattlesnake-den  in  Connecticut,  a  mountain  full  of  rare  birds 
among  the  Poconos,  a  hidden  trout-brook  in  the  Berkshires  and  a 
host  of  other  interesting  places  that  I  visit  every  year.  In  the 
depths  of  the  pine-barrens  on  the  brownest,  sweetest,  crookedest 
stream  in  the  world  I  have  a  canoe  and  a  little  cabin  full  of  books 
and  fireplaces.  There  I  escape  for  a  day  or  so  now  and  then  at  all 
times  of  the  year.  It  is  a  great  way  to  get  acquainted  with  your- 
self and  your  children  and  it  gives  you  time  to  think.  If  you 
don't  believe  it  come  out  and  spend  a  day  and  a  night  with  me 
in  the  Barrens  and  I'll  convert  you. 

"So  I  end  as  I  began.  I  believe  in  hobbies  and  believe  that  a 
multitude  of  interests  and  sympathies  keep  a  man  young  and 
happy  and  hopeful  through  this  life  until  he  is  ready  for  the 
greater  life  beyond." 


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Hubert  Merrill  Sedgwick 

Secretary,  Athletic  Committee,  U.  S.  Navy  Commission  on  Training 
Camp  Activities 

Newspaper  correspondent,  683  Prospect  Street,  New  Haven,  Connecticut 

Sedgwick  is  a  son  of  Butler  and  Minerva  Marcia  (Hastings) 
Sedgwick,  who  were  married  April  4,  1861,  and  had  one  other 
son,  Otis  White  Sedgwick,  B.A.  Brown  1899.  The  father  was 
of  the  ninth  generation  in  direct  descent  from  General  Robert 


HUBERT   M.   SEDGWICK 


Sedgwick,  who  was  born  in  Woburn,  Bedfordshire,  England,  in 
1613,  and  came  to  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  in  1637.  He 
constructed  the  earliest  fortifications  of  Boston  and  died  in 
Jamaica,  May  24,  1856,  at  the  head  of  the  Cromwell  expedition 
to  recover  that  island.  Butler  Sedgwick  (born  March  4,  1832, 
in  Belchertown,  Massachusetts;  died  June  26,  1906,  in  Bonds- 
ville,  that  state)  was  connected  with  the  wholesale  and  retail 
meat  firm  of  Clark  &  Hastings  at  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  for 
thirty-five  years.     His  wife,  whose  ancestors  came  from  England 


364  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

about  1700,  was  born  November  2,  1835,  in  Palmer,  and  died 
April  18,  1875,  in  Bondsville. 

Hubert  Sedgwick  was  born  April  29,  1867,  in  Belchertown, 
and  was  prepared  at  Worcester  Academy.  In  college  he  received 
colloquy  appointments. 

He  has  been  engaged  in  journalism  since  graduation,  serving 
as  New  Haven  and  Yale  correspondent  for  various  large  news- 
papers, including  the  New  York  Times,  New  York  Tribune, 
Boston  Transcript,  Boston  Post,  and  Chicago  Tribune.  He  has 
contributed  articles,  largely  on  athletic  matters,  to  newspapers 
all  over  the  country,  and  to  many  magazines,  notably  Collier's 
and  Leslie's,  since  graduation.  He  is  also  secretary  of  the 
Athletic  Committee  of  the  U.  S.  Navy  Commission  on  Camp 
Activities. 

Republican  in  politics,  he  was  secretary  to  Mayor  John  P. 
Studley,  1907-08,  to  Mayor  Frank  J.  Rice,  1910-17,  and  to  Mayor 
Samuel  Campner,  19 17- 18,  the  last  named  having  filled  out  the 
unexpired  term  of  Mayor  Rice. 

He  is  a  vestryman  and  parish  clerk  of  St.  Thomas'  Episcopal 
Church. 

Since  April  1,  19 12,  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  2d  Company,, 
Governor's  Foot  Guard ;  for  five  years  he  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Union  League,  for  six  years  of  the  New  Haven  Economic 
Club,  and  for  three  of  the  New  Haven  Civic  Federation.  He 
belongs  to  Old  Hiram  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  and  to  the  New  Haven  Rotary  Club. 

He  was  married  August  4,  1897,  in  New  Haven,  to  Edith, 
daughter  of  Major  Theron  A.  Todd  and  Hattie  E.  Todd.  They 
have  had  two  children :u  Ruth,  born  May  28,  1898,  and  Butler 
Todd,  born  July  6,  1900 ;   died  August  5,  1900. 


Albert  Judson  Shaw 

Lawyer,  18  East  Forty-first  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  805  St.  Nicholas  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Shaw's  parents  were  married  January  24,  1859,  an<^  nad  three 
other  children:  Adele  Marie  Shaw,  B.A.  Smith  1887;  Gertrude 
L.  Shaw,  graduated  at  the  Boston  Conservatory  of  Music  in 
1887  (married  William  J.  Bevins),  and  Frederic  Beecher  Shaw 


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365 


(died  January  6,  1879,  *n  Andover,  Massachusetts).  The 
father,  Judson  Wade  Shaw  (born  September  6,  1833,  in  South 
Paris,  Maine;  died  February  22,  1905,  in  Falmouth,  Maine), 
received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  M.A.  at  Colby  College  in  1858 


ALBERT   J.    SHAW 


and  1865.  He  engaged  in  educational  work,  published  several 
books,  and  was  a  Congregational  minister  settled  over  various 
churches  in  New  England ;  he  founded  the  Young  Citizens'  Loyal 
League  and  was  field  secretary  of  the  organization  until  his 
death.  The  original  Shaw  ancestor  in  this  country  is  said  to 
have  come  from  England  and  to  have  settled  near  Boston  in  the 
seventeenth  century.  On  his  father's  side  he  was  also  descended 
from  John  Alden  and  through  both  mother  and  father  from  the 
Cole  family,  who  were  of  the  Mayflozver  company.  Our  class- 
mate's mother,  Anne  Dana  (Barrows)  Shaw,  was  born  January  4, 
1837,  in  Hebron,  Maine,  and  died  May  28,  1898,  in  Falmouth. 
Before  her  marriage  she  was  preceptress  of  Hebron  and  Anson 
Academies.  She  was  descended  from  William  Barrows,  who 
settled  in  Hebron,  Maine,  very  early,  and  was  the  founder  of 
Hebron  Academy,  and  from  the  Myricks,  who  came  from  Wales. 
Albert  Shaw  was  born  January  16,   1871,  in  Concord,  New 


366  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Hampshire,  and  was  prepared  at  Andover.  He  received  a  dis- 
sertation Junior  and  an  oration  Senior  appointment,  and  two- 
year  honors  in  history.  He  was  president  of  the  Tennis 
Association,  champion  in  1892,  and  represented  Yale  on  the  Ten- 
nis Team  in  the  intercollegiate  tournaments  for  three  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Andover  Club  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

He  studied  law  in  New  York  City  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  New  York  in  1896.  He  has  since  practiced  in  New  York 
City.  In  1904  he  became  president  of  the  Colonial  Mortgage 
Company  and  general  counsel  of  the  State  Realty  &  Mortgage 
Company;  in  1909  he  was  elected  secretary  of  the  Holland  Hold- 
ing Company. 

He  is  co-author  with  his  sister  of  a  novel,  "The  Coast  of 
Freedom,"  published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Company,  in  1902, 
and  of  various  short  stories  which  have  appeared  in  Scribnerfs 
and  other  magazines. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  has  worked  for  better  labor 
laws,  fire  prevention  measures,  etc.,  in  New  York.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

He  belongs  to  the  West  Side  Tennis  Club  (president  in  1912), 
the  University  Club  of  New  York,  and  to  the  Yale  Club. 

He  has  not  married. 

Shaw  writes :  "Of  course  I  hope  and  intend  to  play  tennis  till  I 
depart  this  life  and  in  the  interstices  to  attend  as  intelligently  as 
I  can  to  whatever  may  be  my  'job'  before  trying  to  run  the  rest 
of  the  world.  Also  I'm  trying  to  help  in  the  keeping  in  the 
world  of  faith,  sanity,  and  restraint. 

"I  also  cheer  myself  with  the  hope  each  year  of  escaping  to  the 
Maine  woods  and  waters,  there  to  play  with  the  other  loons  and 
the  beaver,  to  breathe  God's  air  and  get  twenty  miles  of  paddling 
each  day." 

George  Theron  Slade 

Major,    Railway   Transportation   Corps,   American    Expeditionary  Forces 

Vice-president,  Northern  Pacific  Railway  Company,  1128  Northern 
Pacific  Railway  Building,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota 

Residence,  435  Summit  Avenue,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota 

Slade  is  a  son  of  George  Patten  and  Cornelia  Wheeler  (Strong) 
Slade,  who  were  married  March  1,  1870,  and  had  one  other  son, 
Arthur  Jarvis  Slade,  Ph.B.  Yale  1892.     His  father,  born  Sep- 


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367 


tember  29,  1845,  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  has  lived  in  New 
York  during  all  his  business  life.  He  is  in  the  drygoods  business 
and  has  real  estate  interests.  Mrs.  Slade  was  born  April  29, 
1844,  in  Palmyra,  New  York,  and  she,  with  her  husband,  is 
descended  from  New  England  Colonial  stock. 


GEORGE   T.    SLADE 


George  T.  Slade  was  born  July  22,  1871,  in  New  York  City,  and 
was  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  New  Hampshire. 
He  served  on  the  Senior  Prom  Committee  and  was  a  member  of 
the  University  Club  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

He  has  been  connected  with  three  great  railroads  in  the 
twenty-five  years  since  graduation — the  Great  Northern,  Erie, 
and  Northern  Pacific.  His  positions  and  length  of  service  follow 
in  chronological  order:  1893-95,  various  positions  with  the  Great 
Northern  Railway  Company  at  St.  Paul  and  St.  Cloud,  Minne- 
sota; 1895-96,  chief  clerk  in  office  of  the  Eastern  Railway  of 
Minnesota  (subsidiary  of  the  Great  Northern)  ;  1896-97,  assistant 
superintendent;  September,  1897-99,  superintendent;  1899-1901, 
general  manager,  Erie  &  Wyoming  Valley  Railroad  Company, 
Scranton;  1901-03,  general  superintendent,  Erie  Railroad,  Jersey 
City;    1903-07,  general  superintendent,  Great  Northern  Railway 


368  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Company;  1907-09,  general  manager,  Northern  Pacific  Railway 
Company;  1909-13,  third  vice-president,  and  since  1913,  first 
vice-president.  He  is  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
St.  Paul  and  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad. 

He  has  never  held  a  political  office ;  usually  votes  the  Republi- 
can ticket. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  Among  his 
clubs  are  the  University  of  New  York,  Chicago,  and  St.  Paul, 
the  Down  Town  Association  of  New  York,  the  Minnesota  of  St. 
Paul,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  Colonial  Wars. 

He  was  married  October  9,  1901,  in  St.  Paul,  to  Charlotte 
E.,  daughter  of  James  J.  Hill,  a  railroad  magnate,  and  Mary  M. 
Hill.  They  have  a  son  and  a  daughter:  George  Norman,  born 
July  25,  1902,  in  Englewood,  New  Jersey,  and  Mary  Elizabeth, 
born  August  16,  1903,  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota. 

James  M.  Hill,  '93,  Louis  W.  Hill,  '93  S.,  Anson  M.  Beard,  '95, 
and  Michael  Gavin,  '95,  are  brothers-in-law. 


William  Warren  Smith 

President  of  the  A.  B.  Smith  Chemical  Company,  manufacturers, 
915  White  Building,  Buffalo,  New  York 

Residence,  135  Oakland  Place,  Buffalo,  New  York 

Smith's  parents  were  married  April  29,  1856,  and  had  four 
children;  the  three  daughters  died  in  childhood.  Elisha  T. 
Smith  (born  June  14,  1834,  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  and  died 
there  April  7,  1891)  was  in  the  banking  business  until  1881, 
being  cashier  of  White's  Bank.  He  was  afterwards  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  A.  B.  Smith  &  Company,  Bradford,  Pennsylvania. 
His  wife,  Julia  (Warren)  Smith,  was  born  May  23,  1836,  in 
Clarence,  New  York,  and  died  March  3,  1913,  in  Buffalo.  Mrs. 
Smith's  nephew,  William  C.  Warren,  graduated  at  Yale  in  the 
Class  of  1880  S.,  and  his  son,  William  C.  Warren,  Jr.,  in  1914. 
The  ancestry  is  English  on  both  sides. 

William  W.  Smith  was  born  July  11,  1872,  in  Buffalo,  and  was 
prepared  at  a  private  school.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  News 
and  of  the  Pot  Pourri,  a  member  of  the  Class  Baseball  Team, 
floor  manager  of  the  Senior  Prom  Committee,  chairman  of  the 
Class  Cup  Committee,  and  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and 
Scroll  and  Key. 


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369 


In  1893-94  he  was  in  the  crockery  business  in  Buffalo  and  the 
next  year  he  was  with  M.  H.  Birge  &  Son,  wall  paper  manufac- 
turers. In  1895  he  entered  the  family  business,  A.  B.  Smith 
Chemical  Company,  Bradford,  Pennsylvania,  and  for  some  years 


WILLIAM    W.    SMITH 


has  been  president  of  the  company;  the  offices  are  in  Buffalo. 
From  1895  to  1897  he  was  also  associated  with  the  Alumina 
Shale  Brick  Company  as  president.  He  has  been  president  of  the 
Hazelhurst  Chemical  Company  and  the  Warren  Chemical  Com- 
pany since  1902,  is  vice-president  and  chairman  of  the  executive 
committee,  Manufacturers'  Charcoal  Company,  Bradford ;  a  gov- 
ernor of  the  National  Wood  Chemical  Association ;  a  director  of 
the  Chemical  Charcoal  Company  of  Buffalo  and  of  the  Flower 
City  Charcoal  Company  of  Rochester,  and  president  of  the 
Dominion  Charcoal  Company  of  Toronto. 

He  serves  on  the  Advisory  Board  of  the  Children's  Hospital  of 
Buffalo  and  of  the  District  Nursing  Association,  and  from  1912 
to  1916  was  president  of  the  Babies  Milk  Dispensary. 

From  1900  to  1905  he  was  a  vestryman  of  Ascension  Church, 
Bradford,    and    from    1906    to    1912,    clerk    of    the    vestry    of 


37Q  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

St.  Paul's  Cathedral,  Buffalo;  he  now  attends  the  Westminster 
Presbyterian  Church. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Saturn 
Club  (dean  in  1918),  Buffalo  Tennis  and  Squash  Club,  Yale  Club 
of  New  York,  and  Graduates  of  New  Haven.  He  has  been  active 
in  the  work  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Buffalo,  serving 
from  1895  to  1900  as  secretary  and  treasurer,  as  president  in 
1914,  and  acting  as  general  chairman  of  the  thirteenth  meeting 
of  Associated  Western  Yale  Clubs,  which  met  in  Buffalo  June 
16,  1916. 

He  was  married  October  4,  1898,  in  Buffalo,  to  Mary,  daughter 
of  Daniel  E.  Newhall,  a  grain  commission  merchant,  and  Anna 
Scott  (Hayden)  Newhall.  Mrs.  Smith  is  president  of  the  Chil- 
dren's Hospital  of  Buffalo.  Their  children  are :  Adrian  Warren, 
born  June  3,  1900,  now  at  Andover ;  Hayden  Newhall,  born  June 
21,  1902,  graduating  from  Nichols  School,  Buffalo,  and  Margaret, 
born  February  5,  1904,  a  graduate  of  the  Elmwood  School, 
Buffalo. 


George  Brown  Spalding 

Pastor  of  Cocoanut  Grove  Congregational  Church,  Miami,  Florida 
Residences,  Miami,  Florida,  and  Stonington,  Connecticut 

Spalding  is  a  son  of  George  Burley  and  Sarah  Livingston 
(Olmstead)  Spalding,  who  were  married  in  1861  and  had  four 
other  children,  all  daughters :  Mary  Livingston,  Martha  Reed, 
Katharine  Olmstead  (died  in  1881),  and  Gertrude  Parker 
Spalding,  B.A.  Wellesley  1892  (Mrs.  F.  L.  Henderson).  The 
Reverend  G.  B.  Spalding  (born  August  11,  1835,  in  Montpelier, 
Vermont;  died  March  13,  1914,  in  Syracuse,  New  York)  was 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Vermont  in  1856  and  received 
the  degrees  of  D.D.  in  1878  from  Dartmouth  College  and  LL.D. 
in  1894  from  Syracuse  University.  His  pastorates  were  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  Dover  and  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  and 
Syracuse,  New  York.  The  Spalding  ancestor,  Edward,  came  to 
America  from  England  and  settled  at  Jamestown,  Virginia,  in 
1619,  but  removed  to  Braintree,  Massachusetts,  in  1630.  Sarah 
L.  (Olmstead)  Spalding  (born  October  28,  1838,  in  Boston)  is 
a  descendant  of  Robert  Livingston,  Jr.,  nephew  of  Robert  R. 


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371 


Livingston;    he  came  from  Scotland  to  New  York  in  1650  and 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  Albany. 

George  B.  Spalding  was  born  December  19,  1870,  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Syracuse  High  School 


GEORGE   B.    SPALDING 


and  at  Andover.  He  received  a  colloquy  Junior  and  a  dispute 
Senior  appointment,  was  president  of  the  Woolsey  Club,  and  a 
member  of  the  Andover  Club  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

In  1893-94  he  taught  English  and  languages  in  Hartford,  the 
next  year  was  a  student  in  Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  and 
after  two  years  of  foreign  travel  for  his  health,  spent  the  years 
1897  to  1900  in  the  Seminary.  Pie  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the 
Syracuse  Presbytery  May  7,  1900,  and  in  December  became 
assistant  to  Rev.  C.  H.  Parkhurst,  D.D.,  pastor  of  the  Madison 
Square  Presbyterian  Church.  In  1902-03  he  was  temporary  pastor 
of  the  church  at  Fryeburg,  Maine.  In  1903  he  removed  to  the 
West  as  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Victor,  Mon- 
tana, and  in  1905  transferred  to  the  First  Congregational  Church 
of  Red  Lodge.  In  February,  1906,  he  was  called  to  the  New 
England  Congregational  Church  at  Saratoga  Springs,  New  York, 


372  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

and  on  September  17,  1908,  accepted  a  call  to  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Stonington,  Connecticut.  In  October,  191 2,  he 
went  to  the  church  at  ^Rocky  Hill,  Hartford,  and  in  1914  to  the 
First  Congregational  Church  at  Key  West,  Florida.  Since  191 5 
he  has  been  minister  of  the  Cocoanut  Grove  Congregational 
Church  in  Miami,  Florida,  and  in  1917  a  new  church  building  was 
completed.  It  is  of  pure  Spanish  mission  architecture ;  the 
structure  is  an  exact  reproduction  (with  modern  institutional 
features)  of  a  Spanish  temple  in  old  Mexico  City.  Spalding  is 
a  trustee  of  Atlanta  Theological  Seminary,  Atlanta,  Georgia, 
and  a  trustee  of  the  General  Conference  of  Florida  and  the 
South  East.  He  is  local  chairman  of  the  Florida  War  Work 
Council,  and  on  the  executive  committee  of  the  Miami  Chapter 
of  the  Red  Cross.  He  has  been  appointed  a  delegate  for  four 
years  to  the  National  Council  of  Congregational  Churches. 

In  1899  he  wrote  ''Coronet  Memories,"  the  record  of  the 
voyage  of  the  yacht  Coronet  on  its  return  from  the  Eclipse 
Expedition  to  Northern  Japan. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  New  York  Chapter  of  the  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars.  In  Montana  he  was  active  in  an  anti-saloon 
league  and  in  Saratoga  was  president  of  the  Christian  Endeavor 
Union  for  the  county. 

He  was  married  September  2,  1909,  in  Stonington,  to  Emeline, 
daughter  of  the  late  Noyes  Stanton  Palmer  and  Emeline  (Palmer) 
Palmer.  Mrs.  Spalding  was  graduated  from  Smith  College  in 
1901. 


Samuel  Reid  Spencer 

President,  Spencer  Brothers,  Inc.,  coal,  lumber,  and  grain, 
Suffield,  Connecticut 

Spencer  is  a  son  of  Alfred  and  Caroline  Frances  (Reid) 
Spencer,  who  were  married  March  20,  1846,  and  had  seven  other 
children,  only  two  of  whom  are  now  living :  Alfred  Spencer,  Jr., 
and  Jennie  (Spencer)  Montgomery;  one  son,  Clinton  Spencer, 
B.A.  Yale  1878,  LL.B.  1881,  died  on  December  18,  1917.  The 
father  (born  January  21,  1825,  in  Suffield,  and  died  there  Decem- 
ber 30,  1891)  was  a  farmer  and  tobacco  merchant;  he  was  a 
very  progressive  man  and  gave  seven  children  a  liberal  education. 
His  ancestors  came  from  England  in  1632;    Sergeant  Thomas 


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373 


Spencer  settled  first  at  Cambridge  and  later  at  Hartford ;  his  son 
Thomas  was  one  of  Sufifield's  first  settlers.  The  family  still  owns 
some  of  the  land  originally  alloted  to  him  and  the  farmhouse, 
built  in   1726,  has  sheltered   six   generations.     Our   classmate's 


SAMUEL   R.    SPENCER 


mother  was  born  October  22,  1827,  in  Colchester,  and  died  August 
31,  1898,  in  Suffield.  She  was  also  of  early  Colonial  ancestry; 
her  people  settled  at  Fall  River. 

Samuel  R.  Spencer  was  born  November  4,  1871,  in  Suffield, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  Connecticut  Literary  Institution  in  that 
town.     In  college  he  received  dissertation  appointments. 

From  1893  to  1900  he  worked  in  Windsor  Locks  with  the 
J.  R.  Montgomery  Company,  manufacturers  of  cotton  yarns.  He 
has  since  been  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Spencer  Brothers,  Inc., 
dealers  in  coal,  lumber,  and  grain,  holding  the  position  of  presi- 
dent. He  is  president  of  the  Suffield  Savings  Bank,  a  director  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Suffield,  president  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  Kent  Memorial  Library,  trustee  of  the  Suffield 
School,  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  and  chairman  of  the 
town  committee  of  the  Council  of  Defense.     He  has  taken  part 


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in  various  local  public  activities,  such  as  the  Red  Cross,  Liberty 
Loan,  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  campaigns. 

He  is  a  Republican.  He  has  been  treasurer  of  the  town  of 
Suffield  since  1900,  in  1914  was  elected  to  the  State  House  of 
Representatives,  and  in  1916  was  reelected.  During  both  terms 
he  served  on  the  Finance  Committee  and  in  his  second  was 
chairman. 

He  attends  the  Second  Baptist  Church.  He  is  a  Thirty-second 
degree  Mason. 

He  was  married  December  12,  1899,  in  Windsor  Locks,  to 
Helena  Ellsworth,  daughter  of  Ezra  Brewster  Bailey,  a  chuck 
manufacturer,  and  Katie  E.  (Horton)  Bailey,  and  sister  of 
Philip  Horton  Bailey,  B.A.  1897.     They  have  no  children. 


*Henry  Crosby  Stetson 

Died  April  16,  1907 

H.  C.  Stetson,  son  of  Isaiah 
and  Sarah  (Griffin)  Stetson, 
was  born  February  1,  1869, 
in  Bangor,  Maine.  He  was 
prepared  for  Yale  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Massa- 
chusetts. In  college  he  was  a 
member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and 
the  University  Club. 

After  graduation  he  studied 
at  Harvard  Law  School,  re- 
ceiving the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
1896,  and  for  special  work  in 
history  he  received  his  M.A. 
degree  at  Yale  in  1899.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  Maine 
Bar  and  the  Suffolk,  Massa^ 
chusetts,  Bar  in  1898,  and 
then  practiced  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts.  He  lived  in 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  a  member  of  the  original  committee  which  formed 
the  Non-Partisan  municipal  party,  and  for  three  years  was  a 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  375 


member  of  the  Common  Council,  being  made  its  president  in 
1907.  He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Cambridge 
Savings  Bank,  a  director  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  treasurer  of  St. 
John's  Memorial  Chapel,  secretary  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  Boston,  and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Yale  Club  of 
Boston.  On  April  16,  1907,  he  died  suddenly  of  apoplexy  at  his 
home  in  Cambridge.     Burial  was  in  Bangor,  Maine. 

He  was  married  July  8,  1899,  to  Eleanor  Morland,  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  Frederick  Morland  Gray  of  Albany,  New  York. 
They  had  a  son,  Henry  Crosby,  Jr.,  born  December  10,  1900,  and 
a  daughter,  Eleanor  Livingston,  born  August  15,  1905. 


Robbins  Battell  Stoeckel 

Lawyer,  Norfolk,  Connecticut 

Gustave  J.  Stoeckel,  father  of  R.  B.  Stoeckel,  was,  until  the  age 
of  twenty-eight,  a  teacher  in  Landstuhl,  Bavaria,  Germany.  He 
took  ship  for  Boston  on  a  sailing  vessel  which  was  wrecked  off 
Nantucket,  and  was  taken  ashore  by  an  old  fisherman.  He  pos- 
sessed letters  of  introduction  to  prominent  citizens  of  New  Haven 
among  whom  was  the  Reverend  Leonard  Bacon.  He  was  at  once 
installed  as  College  organist.  The  older  generations  of  Yale  men 
remember  that  he  was  connected  with  the  University  in  this 
capacity  from  1849  and  as  first  professor  and  head  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Music  until  his  retirement  at  the  age  of  seventy  in  1897. 
In  his  early  years  at  Yale  he  was  a  pioneer  in  assembling  con- 
certed organizations  and  was  the  leader  of  several  small  orchestras 
and  glee  clubs  in  the  University  and  among  the  citizens  of  New 
Haven.  After  his  retirement  from  the  University  he  moved  to 
Norfolk,  and  spent  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life  very  happily,  often 
saying  that  he  could  now  undertake  the  work  for  which  he  had 
previously  had  no  time.  During  those  ten  years  he  composed, 
and  the  family  now  has  the  scores  of  at  least  four  operas ;  one  in 
particular,  "Miles  Standish,"  being  a  work  which  will  probably  be 
produced.  Extracts  from  it  have  been  used  on  many  occasions. 
Matilda  Wehner,  mother  of  R.  B.  Stoeckel,  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1850  to  be  married.  She  was  highly  educated  but  came 
to  the  United  States  without  any  knowledge  whatever  of  English. 
She  never  had  any  active  interests  outside  of  her  family  and  home 


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life.  She  took  the  greatest  interest  in  all  of  the  news  of  the  day, 
in  all  discussions  and  all  matters  appertaining  to  political  activ- 
ities. 

Robbins  B.   Stoeckel  was  born  September  20,   1872,  in  New 
Haven,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School.     He 


ROBBINS    B.    STOECKEL 


received  a  dispute  Junior  and  a  dissertation  Senior  appointment, 
sang  in  the  College  Choir  and  was  a  member  of  Zeta  Psi. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  New  York  Law  School  with  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1895  an^  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut 
Bar  the  following  year.  He  has  practiced  in  Norfolk  since  1896 
and  since  1898  has  been  judge  of  probate  for  the  District  of  Nor- 
folk. He  is  interested  in  the  real  estate  upbuilding  of  Litchfield 
County  and  especially  in  exploiting  the  summer  facilities  of  the 
county.  He  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  from  the  Thirty-first 
District  in  1916,  and  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  IncorJ 
porations  and  of  the  joint  Committee  of  Senate  and  House  rules. 
On  May  1,  19 17,  he  was  appointed  commissioner  of  motor  vehicles 
for  Connecticut  for  four  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  State 
Council  of  Defense  and  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  State  Committee. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  377 

He  belongs  to  the  Yale  Club  of  New  York,  Graduates  Club  of 
New  Haven,  and  the  Norfolk  Club. 

He  was  married  November  9,  1905,  in  Norfolk,  to  Katharine 
Mildred  Fales,  Smith  College  School  of  Music  1893,  daughter 
of  Lowell  Emerson  Fales,  a  paper  manufacturer,  and  Martha  A. 
(Farwell)  Fales.    They  have  no  children. 

Stoeckel  writes :  "Just  at  present  I  am  on  widely  diversified 
propositions  and  keeping  up  my  practice  and  real  estate  work  to 
some  extent.  I  am  organizing  the  Motor  Vehicle  Department. 
The  legislative  act  creating  this  department  has  given  it  wide 
power  and  it  can  become  one  of  the  large  influences  exercised  for 
the  regulation  and  better  enforcement  of  law. 

"On  the  Transportation  Committee  of  the  State  Council  of 
Defense  I  have  been  working  on  a  plan  to  further  goods  trans- 
portation. While  this  is  primarily  an  attempt  at  better  handling 
facilities  as  a  war  measure,  there  is  no  reason  why  it  should  not 
persist  in  times  of  peace.  I  am  most  interested  in  the  accomplish- 
ment of  the  purposes  of  the  Motor  Vehicle  Department.  The 
policy  to  be  followed  is  a  constructive  one,  based  on  the  prin- 
ciple of  foresight  and  prevention  in  advance  of  catastrophe 
rather  than  on  punishment  after  the  catastrophe  has  happened. 

"In  connection  with  the  work  of  the  Automobile  Commission  it 
will  be  of  interest  to  you  if  I  explain  a  step  I  have  recently  taken 
in  connection  with  University  students.  I  had  in  the  depart- 
ment a  large  number  of  complaints  about  the  improper  use  of 
cars  by  students.  Therefore,  I  passed  an  order  that  after 
December  1,  191 7,  no  student  shall  have  a  license  to  operate 
a  car  without  he  first  obtains  from  the  Dean  of  his  Department  a 
certificate  to  the  effect  that  he  is  a  proper  person  to  have  such 
license.  I  believe  that  this  will  regulate  the  use  of  machines  by 
students.  I  hope  to  make  it  impossible  for  any  student  to  have 
a  car  unless  with  full  consent  and  knowledge  of  his  parents  or  of 
those  people  who  will  be  responsible  for  him  and  for  his  being 
at  Yale. 

"I  have  no  accomplishments.  Regarding  recreation  and  hob- 
bies. I  am  first,  last,  and  all  times  interested  in  the  woods  and  in 
everything  appertaining  to  them.  I  have  regularly  been  to  New- 
foundland, New  Brunswick,  and  Maine  for  summer  fishing  trips 
and  have  carefully  studied  the  habits  of  the  animals  and  fishes 
indigenous  to  those  parts. 

"My  family  consists  of  myself  and  wife  and  three  dogs.     My 


378  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

wife  is  immensely  interested  in  everything  appertaining  to  the 
war.  She  claims  that  she  is  not  a  good  knitter  and  flatters  her- 
self that  she  can  drive  an  automobile.  Consequently  she  has  con- 
fined her  war  work  to  getting  and  bringing  into  the  center,  on 
stated  days,  all  of  the  ladies  who  can  knit  and  cannot  drive  auto- 
mobiles. She  organized  and  her  organization  sold  the  Liberty 
Bond  quota  for  Norfolk.  She  is  Church  organist  and  has  been 
since  1896,  having  a  large  choir  under  her  direction.  Her  ideas 
and  mine  seem  to  be  pretty  nearly  alike.  She  takes  interest  in  all 
of  my  plans  and  I  certainly  take  an  interest  in  her  accomplish- 
ments. We  are  not  Society  people.  We  like  to  go  out  and  meet 
people  but  our  daily  work  is  so  strenuous  that  we  rarely  if  ever 
get  out  to  any  of  the  parties  or  Club  functions  and  while  belong- 
ing to  the  various  organizations  such  as  the  Golf  Club  and  Country 
Club  we  do  not  use  them." 


Wendell  Melville  Strong 

Associate  actuary,  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York, 
32  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  175  Ridgewood  Avenue,  Glen  Ridge,  New  Jersey 

The  first  representative  of  the  Strong  family  in  this  country 
was  Elder  John  Strong,  who  came  from  England  to  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts,  in  1630.  Melville  Strong  (born  January  7,  1841, 
in  Thompson,  Ohio)  has  been  in  business  in  Indianapolis  and 
New  York  City.  On  August  13,  1865,  ne  married  Persis  Fidelia 
Griffith  and  they  had  the  one  son,  our  classmate.  Mrs.  Strong 
was  born  November  20,  1841,  in  Hamburg,  Michigan.  In  two 
lines  she  is  descended  from  early  emigrants  from  England; 
Lion  Gardner  came  about  1636  to  Saybrook,  Connecticut,  and 
Gardner's  Island,  and  Michael  Humphrey  settled  in  Windsor, 
Connecticut,  about  1640. 

Wendell  M.  Strong  was  born  February  6,  1871,  in  Indianapolis, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  Montclair,  New  Jersey,  High  School. 
He  received  a  philosophical  oration  Senior  appointment,  one-year 
honors  in  mathematics,  several  mathematical  prizes,  and  was 
elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

From  1893  to  1900  educational  matters  held  his  attention;  he 
studied  at  Cornell,  1893-94,  at  Yale,  1894-95,  at  Gottingen,  1895; 


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379 


from  1895  to  1900  was  a  tutor  in  mathematics  at  Yale.  In  Octo- 
ber, 1900,  he  entered  the  actuarial  department  of  the  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company,  New  York  City,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Actuarial  Society  in  1902  after  passing  the  required  examination. 


WENDELL  M.    STRONG 


In  1904-05  he  was  assistant  actuary  in  Chicago,  and  from  1905 
to  191 1,  when  he  was  advanced  to  associate  actuary,  held  a  sim- 
ilar position  in  New  York. 

He  received  the  degrees  of  M.A.  at  Cornell  in  1894,  Ph.D.  Yale 
1898,  and  LL.B.  New  York  University  1903. 

He  has  published  the  following :  Linkages  for  tracing  the  conic 
sections,  in  "Annals  of  Mathematics,"  1894;  Is  Continuity  of 
space  necessary  to  Euclid's  geometry,  Bulletin  of  the  American 
Mathematical  Society,  1898;  a  chapter  on  Modern  Geometry  in 
"Phillips  and  Fisher's  Geometry,"  and  a  key  to  this  book ;  in 
collaboration  with  Professor  A.  W.  Phillips,  "Elements  of  Trig- 
onometry" and  "Logarithmic  and  Trigonometric  Tables" ;  non- 
quaternion  number  systems,  Transactions  of  the  American  Mathe- 
matical Society,  1902;  Annuities  for  joint  lives,  Transactions  of 
the  Actuarial  Society  of  America,  1902.     Since  May,  1909,  he  has 


380  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

been  editor  of  the  Transactions  and  further  papers  by  him  are 
entitled :  The  incontestible  clause  in  life  insurance  policies ;  An 
important  factor  in  the  interest  rate;  Legal  Notes  (sixteen 
papers).  For  the  last  six  years  he  has  prepared  the  article  on 
"Life  Insurance"  for  the  American  Year  Book. 

In  politics  he  is  an  Independent  Republican.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  University  Club  of  New  York,  Glen  Ridge  Country  Club, 
Glen  Ridge  Club,  Actuarial  Society  of  America,  Casualty,  Actu- 
arial and  Statistical  Society,  American  Mathematical  Society, 
London  Mathematical  Society,  American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science,  and  the  American  Economic  Asso- 
ciation. He  is  a  member  of  the  insurance  committee  of  the 
American  Red  Cross. 

He  was  married  June  9,  1909,  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  to 
Susan  Hoyt,  daughter  of  Rev.  Philip  S.  Evans,  D.D.,  and  Isabel 
(Ovington)  Evans.  Mrs.  Strong  graduated  from  Vassar  in 
1895.  They  have  one  daughter:  Helen  GrifYeth,  born  December 
10,  1913. 

Carlyle  Edgar  Sutphen 

Major,  Medical  Corps,  Base  Hospital  No.  123,  American  Expeditionary- 
Forces 

Physician,  31  Roseville  Avenue,  Newark,  New  Jersey 

Sutphen  is  a  son  of  Carlyle  Edgar  and  Jennette  (Johnston) 
Sutphen,  who  were  married  March  27,  1865,  and  had  three  other 
children:  Robert  Johnston  (died  February  21,  1891);  Eliza 
Woodruff  (died  August  26,  1887),  and  Anne  Janet  Sutphen, 
B.A.  Barnard  1896.  The  father  (born  December  23,  1837,  in 
Camptown,  New  Jersey;  died  February  7,  1918,  in  Deland, 
Florida)  was  engaged  in  shirt  manufacturing  for  fifty  years 
under  the  name,  C.  Edgar  Sutphen  Company,  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  His  ancestors  came  from  Holland  to  New  Utrecht,  Long 
Island,  in  1652.  The  mother,  whose  parents  came  from  Scot- 
land in  1830,  was  born  in  August,  1837,  in  New  York  State,  and 
died  February  20,  1907,  in  Newark. 

Our  classmate  was  born  May  28,  1871,  in  Newark,  and  was  pre- 
pared in  the  public  schools  there.  He  received  colloquy  appoint- 
ments, was  captain  of  the  Class  Football  Team  in  1892,  a 
substitute  on  the  University  Team,  a  member  of  the  Class  Crew 
and  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 


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381 


He  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Columbia,  in  1896,  and  was 
appointed  to  the  staff  of  Roosevelt  Hospital  for  two  years'  service 
from  January  1,  1897.     He  commenced  to  practice  in  Newark  in 


CARLYLE   E.    SUTPHEN 


1899,  was  appointed  assistant  surgeon  to  the  Newark  City 
Hospital  in  November,  1901,  and  has  been  visiting  surgeon  since 
1904.  He  has  held  the  same  position  at  the  Presbyterian  Hos- 
pital since  June,  1913. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Local  Exemption  Board  in  Newark. 
His  previous  military  service  comprised  eight  years  in  the  New 
Jersey  National  Guard,  when  he  served  as  Private,  Hospital 
Steward,  and  1st  Lieutenant.  He  was  commissioned  a  Major  in 
the  Medical  Corps  as  of  June  26,  1918,  and  entered  service  July 
13  at  the  Medical  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Camp  Greenleaf. 
He  was  transferred  to  the  Base  Hospital  at  Camp  Jackson  on 
September  3  and  on  November  10  went  overseas. 

He  belongs  to  the  Clinton  Avenue  Baptist  Church.  He  has 
membership  in  the  following:  American  Medical  Association, 
Essex  County  Medical  Society   (president  in  1914),  Society  of 


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Surgeons  of  New  Jersey,  American  College  of  Surgeons  (elected 
a  Fellow  in  191 5),  Academy  of  Medicine  (Northern  New  Jer- 
sey), Practitioners  Club,  Essex  County  Country  Club,  B.  P.  O.  E., 
Masons,  and  Shriners. 

He  was  married  September  21,  1897,  in  Newark,  to  Edna 
Ethel,  daughter  of  Leon  F.  Blanchard,  retired,  and  Larin 
(Roberts)  Blanchard.  They  have  one  son,  Kenneth  Carlyle,  born 
June  12,  1900,  now  attending  Exeter  Academy. 


NOAH   H.   SWAYNE,  2D 


Noah  Haynes  Swayne,  26. 

Assistant  to   the   United   States   Fuel  Administrator,   Washington,   D.   C. 

Proprietor  of  Swayne  &  Company,  814  Pennsylvania  Building, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 

Residence,  153  Mill  Creek  Road,  Ardmore,  Pennsylvania 

Swayne's  father,  Wager  Swayne,  as  well  as  three  uncles, 
Henry  S.,  Noah  H.,  and  Francis  B.  Swayne,  were  graduates  of 
Yale  in   1856,   1868,   1870,  and   1872,  respectively.     The  son  of 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  383 


Noah  Haynes  Swayne  (LL.D.  Yale  1865),  Associate  Justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  and  Sarah  Ann 
(Wager)  Swayne,  Wager  Swayne  was  born  November  10,  1834, 
in  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  died  December  18,  1902,  in  New  York 
City.  On  graduation  from  Yale  he  immediately  took  up  the 
study  of  law  and,  except  during  the  Civil  War,  he  practiced  with 
marked  success.  Commissioned  a  Major  of  the  43d  Ohio  Vol- 
unteers, at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War,  he  saw  active  service 
with  this  regiment,  being  promoted  to  Colonel  after  the  battle  of 
Corinth.  In  a  skirmish  at  Salkehatchie  Bridge  on  February  2, 
1865,  he  received  a  wound  which  necessitated  the  amputation  of 
his  right  leg.  He  was  then  brevetted  Brigadier-General  and  later 
Major  General.  On  December  22,  1868,  he  married  Ellen, 
daughter  of  Alfred  Harris,  a  lawyer,  and  had  three  sons  and 
two  daughters:  Alfred  Harris  Swayne,  B.A.  Yale  1892;  Noah 
H.,  2d;  Wager  Swayne,  ^-'95,  Virginia  (Swayne)  Lomas,  and 
Eleanor  Swayne.  Governor  Dinwiddie  of  Virginia  was  one  of 
Mrs.  Swayne's  ancestors  and  she  is  a  direct  descendant  of  George 
Washington's  brother.  She  died  December  2,  1909,  in  New 
York  City. 

Noah  Swayne  was  born  December  29,  1871,  in  Toledo,  Ohio, 
and  was  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  New  Hampshire. 
In  college  he  was  president  of  the  Freshman  Baseball  Club,  Uni- 
versity Baseball  Association,  Yale  Financial  Union,  Phelps  Bri- 
gade, and  editor  of  the  News,  chairman  of  the  Alumni  Weekly, 
soloist  of  the  Glee  Club,  a  member  of  the  College  Choir,  the  Cup 
Committee,  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

He  was  a  student  at  the  New  York  Law  School  from  1893  to 
1895,  receiving  his  degree  and  being  admitted  to  the  New  York 
Bar  in  the  latter  year.  During  his  Senior  year  he  was  editor-in- 
chief  of  The  Counsellor,  the  New  York  Law  School  Journal. 
For  the  five  years  succeeding  he  practiced  law  in  New  York  City 
with  his  father,  under  the  firm  name  of  Swayne  &  Swayne.  In 
February,  1900,  he  became  president  and  general  manager  of  the 
Alabama  &  Georgia  Iron  Company  and  the  Frog  Mountain  Ore 
Company,  Cedartown,  Georgia,  which  position  he  resigned  in 
1904  for  the  presidency  of  the  Nittany  Iron  Company  of  Belle- 
fonte,  Pennsylvania.  From  1906  to  1914  he  was  resident  man- 
ager in  Philadelphia  for  Rogers,  Brown  &  Company,  pig  iron, 
coke,  and  iron  ore,  and  a  director  or  officer  of  several  iron  and 


384  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

mining  companies,  and  has  since  been  engaged  in  a  general 
brokerage  and  commission  business  in  coal,  pig  iron,  and  coke 
under  the  name  of  Swayne  &  Company.  He  is  also  president  of 
the  Calorie  Coal  Company,  Jaffy  Coal  Mining  Company,  etc., 
and  of  the  Philadelphia  Wholesale  Coal  Trade  Association. 

In  October,  1917,  he  was  appointed  Commissioner  of  the 
National  Coal  Jobbers  Association  in  Washington  where  he  has 
been  cooperating  with  the  United  States  Fuel  Administrator  in 
making  available  the  resources  and  facilities  of  the  members  of 
the  Association.  In  April  he  became  an  assistant  to  the  Fuel 
Administrator,  serving  without  compensation  and  at  his  own 
expense. 

He  is  a  Republican.  His  only  active  participation  in  politics 
was  in  1902  when  he  was  elected  without  opposition  an  alderman 
in  Cedartown,  Georgia,  and  was  chosen  by  his  associates  as  Mayor 
"pro  tern." 

He  belongs  to  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  Always 
actively  interested  in  alumni  matters,  he  has  served  as  Class 
Secretary  since  1894,  as  Alumni  Fund  Agent  since  1895  (director, 
1898-1900)  ;  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Yale  Club  of 
New  York  and  a  member  of  its  Council,  1897-1900;  member  of 
the  executive  committee  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of 
Alabama,  1903-04;  vice-president,  Yale  Alumni  Association  of 
Central  Pennsylvania,  1905-06,  member  of  executive  committee, 
1907-10;  member  of  the  Alumni  Advisory  Board  since  1908, 
and  member  of  its  executive  committee,  1913-16;  a  governor  of 
the  Yale  Publishing  Association  since  191 1,  was  chairman  of  the 
Wright  Memorial  Committee,  1910-12,  and  a  member  of  the 
Committee  of  Twenty-one,  Inc.,  which  had  charge  of  the  secur- 
ing of  additional  property  for  athletic  purposes  and  of  the  funds 
for  the  Bowl. 

His  clubs  are  the  Yale  and  University,  New  York ;  Graduates, 
New  Haven ;  University,  Union  League,  and  Merion  Cricket, 
Philadelphia;  Metropolitan  and  Chevy  Chase,  Washington,  and 
the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion. 

He  was  married  September  28,  1898,  in  Pittsburgh,  to  Chris- 
tine, daughter  of  Joseph  G.  Siebeneck,  owner  and  editor  of  the 
Pittsburgh  Chronicle-Telegraph,  and  Estelle  (King)  Siebeneck. 
They  have  one  son :   Noah  Haynes,  3d,  born  December  9,  1909. 


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385 


Moses  Taylor 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Kean,  Taylor  &  Company,  bankers, 
5  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  Annandale  Farm,  Mount  Kisco,  New  York 

Taylor  is  a  son  of  Henry  Augustus  Coit  and  Charlotte  J. 
(Fearing)  Taylor,  who  were  married  in  1868  and  had  two  other 
children:  Henry  Richmond  Taylor,  B.A.  Columbia  1891,  LL.B. 
1894,  and  Harriet  Taylor.  Our  classmate's  father  was  born 
January  19,  1841,  in  New 
York  City,  graduated  from 
Columbia  University  in  1861, 
receiving  the  degree  of  M.A. 
in  1864,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Moses  Taylor  & 
Company,  bankers,  until  he 
retired  from  active  business  in 
1882.  In  1903  he  married 
Josephine  Johnson.  Char- 
lotte (Fearing)  Taylor  was 
born  in  New  York  City  in 
1844  and  died  in  1899. 

Moses  Taylor  was  born 
January  30,  1871,  in  New 
York  City,  and  was  prepared 
at  the  Cutler  School.  He 
was  a  member  of  He  Boule, 
Psi  Upsilon,  and  Scroll  and 
Key. 

He  writes:  "Since  return- 
ing from  around  the  world  I 

have  been  actively  engaged  in  the  steel  and  banking  business  and 
still  am,  being  the  only  officer  now  connected  with  the  Lackawanna 
Steel  Company  who  was  then  with  the  Lackawanna  Iron  and 
Steel  Company  when  it  moved  its  plant  from  Scranton  to  Buffalo. 
Am  now  senior  member  of  the  banking  firm  of  Kean,  Taylor  & 
Company."  Taylor  is  a  director  of  the  Interlake  Steamship 
Company,  Lackawanna  Steel  Company,  South  Buffalo  Company, 
Lake  Champlain  Railroad  Company,  Witherbee  Sherman  Com- 
pany, New  York,  and  Queens  Gas  Company,  New  York  Life 


MOSES    TAYLOR 


386  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Insurance  &  Trust  Company,  Tilly  Foster  Iron  Mines,  and 
numerous  gas,  iron,  and  railroad  companies. 

He  is  a  Republican.  For  four  years  after  graduation  he  was  a 
member  of  Squadron  A,  National  Guard  of  New  York. 

He  is  president  of  the  Moses  Taylor  Hospitals  in  Scranton  and 
Buffalo,  the  Manhattan  Maternity  and  Dispensary  Hospital,  New 
York  City,  and  vice-president  of  the  Northern  Westchester  Hos- 
pital, Mount  Kisco,  New  York.  He  belongs  to  the  Episcopal 
Church. 

His  clubs  are  the  Metropolitan,  Midday,  Brook,  University, 
Yale,  Racquet  and  Tennis,  New  York;  Graduates,  New  Haven, 
and  Mt.  Kisco  Golf  Club. 

He  was  married  August  19,  1896,  in  New  York  City,  to  Edith, 
daughter  of  Heber  R.  and  Mary  (Cunningham)  Bishop.  They 
have  had  five  children :  Moses,  Jr.,  born  June  8,  1897 ;  Reginald  B., 
born  September  23,  1898;  Francis,  born  June  14,  1900;  Marion, 
born  February  7,  1902,  and  Edith,  born  June  6,  1903. 

Moses  Taylor,  Jr.,  graduated  from  St.  Mark's  School  in  191 5, 
and  was  commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant,  9th  U.  S.  Infantry;  he 
went  to  France  early  in  September,  19 17,  and  died  of  wounds 
received  in  action  in  the  fall  of  1918. 


William  Stoutenborough  Terriberry 

Lieutenant  Colonel,  Medical  Corps,  National  Army 

Residence,  Fisher's  Island,  New  York 

Terriberry  is  a  son  of  George  Washington  and  Martha  Grif- 
fith (Stoutenborough)  Terriberry,  who  were  married  April  28, 
1868.  George  Gilson  Terriberry,  M.E.  Cornell  191 5,  is  a  half 
brother.  George  W.  Terriberry  (born  April  7,  1840,  in  Hampton, 
New  Jersey;  died  July  14,  1913,  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey)  is  a 
descendant  of  Hans  Michael  Tornberg,  a  Protestant  of  the  Pala- 
tine, South  Germany,  who  emigrated  to  western  New  Jersey  in 
1732.  He  attended  Muhlenberg  College,  but  left  to  enter  the 
army,  later  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  Bellevue  Medical 
College  in  1866.  He  was  a  medical  officer  in  the  United  States 
Army, — being  a  medical  Cadet  and  later  an  Assistant  Surgeon, 
1  st  Lieutenant  (1862-65).  He  afterwards  held  various  grades 
in  the   New  Jersey   National   Guard   from  Major  to   Colonel, 


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387 


retiring  as  Brigadier  General.  In  1890  he  married  Fanny  E. 
Gilson.  From  1867  to  19 13  he  lived  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey. 
Our  classmate's  mother  (born  in  May,  1846,  in  Paterson;    died 


WILLIAM    S.   TERRIBERRY 


there,  December  13,  1888)  was  of  Dutch  and  English  descent,  her 
ancestors  coming  from  Holland  to  Albany  and  New  York  about 
1648-49. 

William  S.  Terriberry  was  born  July  3,  1871,  in  Paterson,  and 
attended  St.  Paul's  School,  Garden  City,  in  1889.  In  college  he 
received  Junior  and  Senior  colloquies,  was  an  editor  of  the 
Record  and  a  member  of  Zeta  Psi. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  New  York  City,  and  graduated  in  June,  1896,  with  the 
degree  of  M.D.  In  March  of  that  year  he  was  appointed  to  the 
house  staff  of  the  fourth  division  Bellevue  Hospital  surgical  ser- 
vice. When  the  Spanish  War  broke  out  in  1898  he  was  com- 
missioned 1st  Lieutenant  and  Assistant  Surgeon,  2d  Regiment 
New  Jersey  Volunteer  Infantry,  proceeding  with  that  regiment  to 
Jacksonville,  Florida.  Late  that  year  he  resigned  his  position 
and  was  appointed  acting  Assistant  Surgeon,  United  States  Army. 


3S8  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

He  saw  service  at  Headquarters,  7th  Army  Corps,  at  Savannah, 
Georgia,  at  Quemados  de  Mariano,  Havana,  Cuba,  and  at  the 
headquarters  of  General  Fitzhugh  Lee,  and  General  Brooke.  He 
was  discharged  in  April,  1899,  returning  to  New  York  City  and 
active  practice.  Since  that  time  he  has  served  in  various  capaci- 
ties at  the  Bellevue  Hospital.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  United 
States  Army  Field  Service  School  at  Fort  Leavenworth.  He 
was  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  for  Mexican  border 
duty  in  June  and  mustered  out  in  December,  1916,  receiving  the 
commission  of  Colonel,  Medical  Corps,  New  York  National 
Guard,  March  20,  191 7.  As  a  Lieutenant  Colonel,  Medical 
Corps,  National  Army,  he  has  been  in  charge  of  the  Embarkation 
Hospital  at  Camp  Stuart,  Newport  News,  Virginia. 

He  has  written  a  number  of  articles  in  various  medical  and  mil- 
itary service  publications,  mostly  on  military  medicine  or  the 
organization  of  the  army  medical  department. 

His  clubs  are :  Yale  Club,  Society  of  Alumni  of  Bellevue  Hos- 
pital and  Riverside  Practitioners  Society,  of  New  York;  New 
York  State  and  County  Medical  Society;  Army  and  Navy  Club, 
Washington,  D.  C. ;  Military  and  Naval  Order  Spanish-x\merican 
War,  and  Military  Service  Institution. 

He  was  married  October  17,  1907,  in  New  York  City,  to  Emilie, 
daughter  of  Charles  Stanley  Reinhart,  artist  and  illustrator,  and 
Emelie  V.  (Varet)  Reinhart.  Born  in  New  York  City,  Mrs. 
Terriberry  lived  in  France  for  many  years,  and  in  New  York 
and  Flushing.     They  have  no  children. 

Terriberry  writes :  "Have  been  actively  engaged  in  the  mili- 
tary service  for  a  number  of  years,  and  for  the  past  five  years 
chief  surgeon  of  the  National  Guard  of  New  York,  an  assignment 
which  made  it  necessary  for  me  to  give  up  all  private  practice. 
Am  now  on  active  duty  as  a  Lieutenant  Colonel,  Medical  Corps, 
National  Army,  having  taken  an  Irish  promotion  from  Colonel, 
National  Guard,  to  Lieutenant  Colonel,  National  Army, — if  the 
war  lasts  long  enough  I  may  hope  to  be  a  Sergeant  before  it  ends. 
You  ask  what  I  am  talking  and  thinking  of.  I  am  not  talking  at 
all,  and  since  the  uplift  hit  the  army  I  am  principally  thinking 
how  good  beer  used  to  taste.  Soldiering  is  a  hard  life  but  there 
are  no  meatless  or  wheatless  days  in  it  so  far,  and  besides  it  is  the 
fashion, — we  are  all  heroes  now  and  not  the  mercenary  bums  and 
murderers  we  were  ante  helium.     So  far  so  good." 


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389 


John  Booth  Thomas 

Town  clerk  and  treasurer,  clerk  of  City  Court,  and  owner  of  the 
Thomas   Pharmacy,  Memorial  Building,  Rockville,  Connecticut 

Residence,  6  Chestnut  Street,  Rockville,  Connecticut 

The  first  generation  of  his  family  to  be  born  in  the  United 
States,  Thomas  is  one  of  five  children  of  James  and  Mary 
(Hoyle)  Thomas,  who  were  married  in  this  country  in  1861  ; 
the  other  children  are  Annie  E.,  Alfred,  Jennie  (Thomas)  Ronk, 


JOHN    B.    THOMAS 


and  Arthur  Thomas  (died  October  6,  1908).  The  father  (born 
February  16,  1836,  in  Halifax,  Yorkshire,  England;  died  May  8, 
1906,  in  Rockville)  settled  in  Millville,  Massachusetts,  in  1859, 
and  later  lived  in  Uxbridge  and  Otter  River,  that  state,  Westerly, 
Rhode  Island,  and  Rockville,  Connecticut.  The  mother  (born 
January  20,  1839,  in  Holmfirth,  Yorkshire)  is  the  daughter  of 
Jonas  and  Esther  Hoyle,  who  came  to  Uxbridge,  Massachusetts, 
in  1859. 

John  B.  Thomas  was  born  July  22,  1865,  m  Westerly,  Rhode 
Island,   and  was   prepared   at  the   Rockville   High   School.     He 


39°  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

received  a  dispute  Junior  and  a  dissertation  Senior  appointment, 
prizes  in  mathematics  in  Freshman  and  Junior  years  and  honors 
in  mathematics  and  history  in  Senior  year. 

After  one  year  of  teaching  Thomas  entered  the  drug  business 
and  until  1908  was  with  the  following  companies :  Spalding  & 
Company,  New  Haven,  1894-95;  Calhoun  &  Company,  New 
Haven,  1895-98,  and  J.  Hutchinson  &  Company,  Bran  ford,  Con- 
necticut, 1900-08.  In  December  of  the  latter  year  he  passed  the 
Connecticut  Bar  examinations  and  opened  an  office  in  Branford. 
In  191 3  he  moved  his  office  to  Rockville  and  has  since  been 
actively  identified  with  the  government  of  that  town.  He  became 
a  partner  in  and  manager  of  the  Woodhall  Drug  Company  in 
1914  and  three  years  afterward  bought  out  the  business  and 
changed  the  name  to  the  Thomas  Pharmacy. 

In  politics  a  Republican,  he  has  served  as  clerk  of  the  City 
Court  of  Rockville  since  1914,  clerk  of  the  Town  of  Vernon  since 
May,  191 5,  treasurer  of  the  Town  of  Vernon  since  October,  1914, 
and  deputy  coroner  of  Tolland  County,  1914  to  191 7. 

He  served  as  chairman  of  the  military  census  bureau,  was 
a  recruiting  officer  of  the  Connecticut  Home  Guard ;  member  and 
clerk,  Registration  Board,  Town  of  Vernon,  and  secretary,  Tol- 
land County  Auxiliary  Committee,  State  Council  of  Defense. 
On  December  15,  191 7,  he  was  appointed  chief  clerk  of  the  Local 
Exemption  Board  for  Division  No.  23,  State  of  Connecticut,  and 
on  January  2,  1918,  secretary  of  the  War  Bureau,  City  of 
Rockville. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  of  Rockville. 
He  belongs  to  the  Masonic  Lodge  and  Knights  of  Pythias. 

He  was  married  June  2,  1896,  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  to 
Harriet  Gertrude,  daughter  of  George  E.  and  Jennie  (Abbey) 
Barber.  They  have  one  daughter:  Dorothy  Kenyon,  born 
March  6,  1901. 

Thomas  writes :  "Being  unfit  physically  for  active  military 
service  by  both  age  and  condition  I  am  trying  in  every  way  pos- 
sible to  do  my  bit  for  my  country  in  these  trying  times.  While  1 
have  been  consistently  and  slowly  gaining  in  this  game  of  life, 
yet  at  this  age  of  fifty-two,  I  have  not  ceased  striving  to  reach 
the  goal  of  my  student  days.  This  goal  I  may  never  reach,  but 
still  have  much  ambition  left  and  am  (as  the  English  say)  still 
'carrying  on,'  and  whether  I  reach  the  goal  or  not  life  is  much 
more  interesting  for  the  reason  that  I  still  have  something  to  look 


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39 


forward  to.  While  family  life  is  more  or  less  uninteresting  to 
those  outside  of  the  family  circle,  I  can  say  in  this  respect  that  my 
only  child,  a  daughter,  now  seventeen  years  old  and  a  Junior  in 
the  Rockville  High  School,  is  following  in  her  father's  footsteps 
in  the  love  for  study  and  promises  to  be  a  more  thorough  and 
consistent  student  than  her  father,  while  at  the  same  time  an 
athletic  outdoor  girl,  skilled  in  all  outdoor  sports." 


Herbert    Gorden  Thomson 

President,   Anchor   Post  Iron  Works,   manufacturers   of   iron    and   steel 
fences  and  railings,  165  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Residence,  810  Park  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Thomson  is  a  son  of  William  Hanna  and  Catherine  Sarah  (Van 
Dyck)  Thomson,  who  were  married  May  7,  1861,  and  had  two 
other  children :  Evelyn  M.  and 
William  DeForest  Thomson, 
B.A.  Yale  1895,  The  father 
(born  November  1,  1833,  in 
Beirut,  Syria;  died  January 
18,  191 8,  in  New  York  City) 
attended  Wabash  College  in 
1849-50  and  Albany  Medical 
College.  He  also  received  the 
degree  of  LL.D.  He  was 
physician  to  the  Roosevelt 
Hospital,  consulting  physician 
to  the  New  York  State  Man- 
hattan Hospitals  for  the  In- 
sane, and  to  the  New  York 
Red  Cross  Hospital,  professor 
of  the  practice  of  medicine 
and  of  diseases  of  the  nervous 
system  in  the  New  York  Uni- 
versity Medical  College,  and 
was  at  one  time  president  of 
the   New   York  Academy  of 

Medicine.  The  family  is  of  Scotch  ancestry,  being  descended 
from  members  of  Clan  McTavish,  who  came  to  Indiana  County, 
Pennsylvania,   in   1780.     The   mother    (born   June    10,    1832,   in 


HERBERT   G.    THOMSON 


392  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Albany,  New  York  ;  died  May  29,  1905,  in  New  York  City)  was  a 
descendant  of  Holland  Dutch  emigrants,  who  came  to  this 
country  early  in  the  eighteenth  century  and  settled  near  Albany. 

Herbert  Thomson  was  born  December  23,  1871,  in  New  York 
City,  and  attended  the  James  H.  Morse  Preparatory  School  in 
New  York  City.  He  received  colloquy  appointments,  was  an 
editor  of  the  Record,  a  member  of  the  Class  Crew,  and  of  Alpha 
Delta  Phi  and  Wolf's  Head. 

He  writes :  "Since  leaving  college,  the  manufacturing  business 
of  which  I  am  president  has  demanded  all  of  my  working  hours, 
and  given  me  very  little  leisure  for  anything  else.  Manufactur- 
ing, however,  is  an  interesting  and  absorbing  occupation,  and  at 
this  time  more  so  than  ever.  It  is  a  great  source  of  satisfaction 
to  me  to  work  for  the  Government,  and  to  put  the  resources  of 
our  company,  such  as  they  are,  to  Government  service. 

"I  am  very  much  interested  in  farming,  and  spend  as  much  of 
my  leisure  time  as  I  can  from  business  at  my  farm  in  Fairfield 
County,  Connecticut.  I  would  like  to  live  on  a  farm,  but  as  I 
cannot  do  that,  I  have  devised  the  next  best  thing  and  have  a  farm 
that  lives  on  me.  However,  it  is  an  excellent  place  for  children 
and  for  play. 

"If  I  could  take  the  time  from  business,  I  would  prefer  trav- 
eling to  almost  anything  else. 

"Is  not  the  War  the  only  thing  worth  talking  about  just  now?" 

In  politics  Thomson  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  vestryman  in 
the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  was  married  October  7,  1902,  in  Ridgefield,  Connecticut,  to 
Anna  Theodora,  daughter  of  Theodore  Hoe  Mead,  a  partner  in 
R.  Hoe  &  Company,  of  New  York  City,  and  Anna  R.  (Johnson) 
Mead.  They  have  one  daughter:  Theodora  Gordon,  born 
December  20,  1909. 


Dexter  Edgar  Tilley 

Address   unknown 

Tilley  is  the  son  of  Bennett  Tilley  and  was  born  November  28, 
1872,  in  West  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  where  he  prepared  for 
Yale  at  the  high  school.  He  received  first  dispute  Junior  and 
Senior  appointments  in  college. 

For  a  year  after  graduation  he  was  at  the  Yale  Law  School. 


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393 


The  next  year  he  continued 
the  study  of  law  in  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  Massachusetts 
Bar  in  June,  1895.  He  prac- 
ticed in  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, being  made  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Webster, 
Taft  and  Tilley  in  1898.  He 
was  a  selectman  of  West 
Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
for  three  terms,  and  also  town 
clerk.  Since  about  1905 
nothing  has  been  known  of  his 
occupation  or  address. 

He  was  married  February 
9,  1901,  to  Grace  M.,  daughter 
of  Charles  S.  Willard  of  West 
Springfield,  Massachusetts. 


DEXTER    E.    TILLEY 


Horace  Gates  Torbert 

Farmer,  R.  F.  D.  5,  Concord,  New  Hampshire 

Torbert  is  a  son  of  George  Lansing  and  Margaret  (Rockwell) 
Torbert,  who  were  married  October  20,  1869,  and  had  two 
other  children :  Katharine  K.  Torbert,  and  James  R.  Torbert, 
Yale  1895  S.,  a  physician  in  Boston,  Massachusetts.  George  L. 
Torbert  (born  January  1,  1831,  in  Camden,  New  York;  died 
April  3,  1905,  in  Dubuque,  Iowa)  is  a  descendant  of  Lamb  Tor- 
bert who  emigrated  from  Scotland  to  Pennsylvania  about  1740, 
and  was  a  son  of  Horatio  Gates  and  Clarissa  (Ransom)  Tor- 
bert. He  lived  in  Camden,  New  York,  until  1855,  and  then 
removed  to  Dubuque,  Iowa,  where  he  was  postmaster  from  1872 
to  1880;  he  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  insurance  busi- 
ness and  was  president  of  the  Iowa  Trust  &  Savings  Bank.  Mrb. 
Torbert  is  a  daughter  of  James  and  Cynthia  (Kellogg)  Rockwell, 
and  was  born  in  Utica,  New  York,  May  13,  1842.  Her  ancestor, 
William  Rockwell,  settled  in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  in  1630. 

Horace  G.  Torbert  was  born  February  I,   1871,  in  Dubuque, 


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Iowa,  and  attended  the  Dubuque  public  schools  and  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  and 
Class  Football  teams,  the  Andover  Club  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsi- 
lon. 

In  1893  he  entered  the  real  estate  and  insurance  business  in 
Dubuque,  and  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  G.  L.  Torbert  &  Son 


HORACE  G.    TORBERT 


until  1904.  During  1897-98  he  was  receiver  of  the  Dubuque 
Street  Railway.  In  1904  he  moved  to  Washington,  D.  C,  to 
accept  a  position  with  the  Washington  Railway  &  Electric  Com- 
pany, remaining  there  until  191 5  when  he  was  employed  in  the 
office  of  the  president  of  the  Boston  Elevated  Railway  Company. 
In  May,  191 7,  he  removed  to  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  and  has 
since  been  engaged  in  farming.  He  says :  "After  trying  to  get 
into  several  branches  of  the  army  and  being  turned  down  on 
account  of  old  age,  we  decided  to  buy  a  farm  and  try  to  raise 
something.  We  are  enjoying  the  experience  though  I  shall  have 
to  admit  that  our  crops  cost  us  more  last  year  than  we  got  for 
them.     We  expect,  however,  to  tackle  it  again  next  summer." 

In  politics  Torbert  is  a  Republican.     He  is  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church. 


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395 


He  was  married  November  9,  1910,  in  Bethesda,  Maryland, 
to  Alice  Kearny,  daughter  of  the  late  Randolph  Coyle,  U.  S. 
District  Attorney,  and  Mary  (Radford)  Coyle.  They  have  one 
son:  Horace  Gates,  Jr.,  born  October  7,  191 1.  Mrs.  Torbert 
attended  Radcliffe  College  with  the  Class  of  1901. 


Edward  Holman  Tracy 

Lawyer,  410  American  Trust  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Residence,  1892  Taylor  Road,  East  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Melville    Merrick    and    Abigail    Durham     (Weston)     Tracy, 
parents  of  Edward  H.  Tracy,  were  married  August  4,  1863,  and 


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EDWARD    H.   TRACY 


had  three  other  children :  Frank  Tracy  (died  in  1864),  Emma 
Louise  Tracy  (died  1874),  and  Frances  Maude  (Tracy)  Oviatt, 
B.A.  Washburn  College  1885.  Melville  M.  Tracy  (born  in 
1836,  at  Whitney's  Point,  New  York;  died  in  Longmount,  Colo- 
rado,  September,   1889)   was  of  English  descent.     He  received 


396  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

the  degrees  of  B.A.  at  Amherst  College  in  i860,  M.A.  from  the 
same  institution  and  B>D.  at  the  Hartford  Theological  Seminary 
in  1876.  He  was  principal  of  schools  in  Barre,  Springfield,  and 
New  Marlboro,  Massachusetts,  from  1862- 1875,  becoming  a  Con- 
gregational clergyman  in  1876,  and  preaching  in  Minnesota, 
Kansas,  and  Colorado.  He  married  Ruth  Kent  in  October,  1876, 
of  which  marriage  was  born  one  daughter,  Abby  Ruth  Tracy, 
B.A.  Wellesley  1900.  Our  classmate's  mother  (born  Septem- 
ber 6,  1829,  in  New  Braintree,  Massachusetts ;  died  October  22, 
1875,  m  Hartford,  Connecticut)  was  also  of  English  ancestry, 
her  people  having  come  to  Plymouth  in  the  Mayflower.  She 
attended  the  public  schools  of  New  Braintree  and  Miss  Campbell's 
Boarding  School,  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  and  was  a  success- 
ful school-teacher. 

Edward  H.  Tracy  was  born  June  5,  1868,  in  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  attended  Washburn  College  before  entering  Yale. 
He  received  dispute  appointments,  and  one-year  honors  in  polit- 
ical science  in  Senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  continued  his  studies  at  the  Yale  Law 
School,  teaching  in  the  Evening  High  School  1893-94,  and  at 
Highwood  School  1894-95,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
1895.  The  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  Ohio  Bar,  but  was 
engaged  in  tutoring  for  another  year  in  Dayton,  beginning  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Cleveland  in  1896,  where  he  is  now 
in  business  without  associates.  He  is  a  director  in  the  Art 
Engraving  &  Color  Type  Company. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church,  having  been  a 
deacon  and  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  and  is  clerk  at  the 
present  time.  In  politics  he  is  a  Progressive  Republican.  He 
acted  as  solicitor  for  the  Village  of  Collinwood  in  1906-07  and 
was  president  of  the  Board  of  Education,  1908-09. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Cleveland  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
Cleveland  Real  Estate  Board,  and  the  East  Cleveland  Chamber 
of  Commerce. 

He  was  married  September  4,  1902,  in  Canton,  Illinois,  to  Anna 
Lee,  daughter  of  John  Bangs  Allen,  a  lumber  dealer,  and  Sarah 
(Dunlap)  Allen.  Before  her  marriage  Mrs.  Tracy  was  a  piano 
teacher  and  organist,  having  attended  Oberlin  College  and  Con- 
servatory of  Music.  They  have  two  children:  Charlotte,  born 
October  6,  1904,  in  Cleveland,  and  Barbara,  born  January  2^, 
1906,  in  Collinwood,  Ohio. 


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397 


*Robert  Storer  Tracy 

Died  April  13,  1899 

Robert  S.  Tracy  was  the  son  of  Jeremiah  Evarts  and  Martha 
Sherman  (Greene)  Tracy,  who  were  married  September  30, 
1863,  and  had  eight  other  children,  three  sons  and  five  daughters: 
Emily  Baldwin  Tracy;  Howard  Crosby  Tracy,  B.A.  Yale  1887, 
LL.B.  Columbia  Law  School 
1889;  Evarts  Tracy,  B.A. 
Yale  1890;  Mary  Evarts 
Tracy  ;  Margaret  Louisa 
(Tracy)  Mix;  Edith  Hast- 
ings Tracy;  Martha  Tracy, 
B.A.  Bryn  Mawr  1898,  M.D. 
Woman's  Medical  College  of 
Pennsylvania  1904;  and  Wil- 
liam Evarts  Tracy,  B.A.  Yale 
1900,  E.M.  Columbia  School 
of  Mines  1904,  who  died  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1916.  Our  class- 
mate's grandfather,  Ebenezer 
Carter  Tracy,  B.A.  Dartmouth 
1819,  Andover  Theological 
Seminary  1822  (born  June  10, 
1796,  in  Hartford,  Vermont, 
and  died  May  15,  1862,  in 
Windsor,  Vermont),  was  a 
newspaper  editor  living  in 
Boston,     Massachusetts,     and 

Windsor,  Vermont.  He  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Tracy,  a  grand- 
son of  Thomas  Tracy,  and  a  great-great-great-grandson  of 
Stephen  Tracy,  an  Englishman  who,  after  spending  some  years 
in  Leyden,  Holland,  where,  in  1621,  he  married  a  young  English- 
woman, came  in  1623,  in  the  ship  Ann,  to  Plymouth,  Massachu- 
setts, later  moving  to  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  the  descending 
line  running  thence  through  Windham,  Connecticut,  to  Hartford, 
Vermont.  His  wife,  Martha  Sherman  (Evarts)  Tracy,  born 
July  31,  1809,  and  died  April  10,  1889,  was  the  younger  daughter 
of  Jeremiah  Evarts,  B.A.  Yale  1802,  and  Mehetabel  Sherman, 
widow  of  Daniel  Barnes,  and  daughter  of  Roger  Sherman,  treas- 
urer of  Yale  College  from  1765  to  1776,  who  was  the  only  man 


ROBERT    STORER   TRACY 


398  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

who  signed  all  four  of  the  great  state  papers :  the  Association  of 
the  Congress  of  1774,  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  the 
Articles  of  Confederation,  and  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States.  Our  classmate's  father,  J.  Evarts  Tracy,  one  of  eight 
children,  was  born  January  31,  1835,  in  Windsor,  Vermont. 
After  receiving  his  LL.B.  degree  at  Yale  in  1857,  he  went  to  New 
York  City,  where  he  practiced  law  until  his  retirement  in  1907. 
His  wife,  Martha  Sherman  Greene,  born  May  24,  1839,  was  a 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  David  Greene,  B.A.  Yale  1821,  Andover 
Theological  Seminary  1826,  and  Mary  Evarts,  eldest  daughter  of 
Jeremiah  Evarts,  whose  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Timothy 
Todd,  B.A.  Yale  1747,  and  whose  sons  were  John  Jay  Evarts, 
B.A.  Yale  1832,  and  William  Maxwell  Evarts,  B.A.  Yale  1837, 
LL.D.  1865  and  Union  1857  and  Harvard  1870,  Attorney-General, 
Secretary  of  State,  and  United  States  Senator.  Our  classmate's 
mother  also  had  a  brother,  Jeremiah  Evarts  Greene,  who  grad- 
uated at  Yale  in  1853 ;  and  Roger  Sherman  Tracy,  B.A.  Yale 
1862,  M.D.  Columbia  1868,  is  another  uncle. 

Robert  S.  Tracy  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Mr.  Leal's  School, 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University 
Club  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

In  June,  1896,  he  received  his  M.D.  degree  at  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City.  As  the  result  of  a 
competitive  examination  he  served  on  the  staff  of  the  New  York 
Hospital  from  January,  1897,  to  July,  1898,  and  later  occupied  a 
similar  position  in  the  Sloan  Maternity  Hospital  for  six  months. 
In  January,  1899,  he  went  to  Dr.  Trudeau's  Sanitarium  at  Sara- 
nac  Lake,  New  York,  because  of  threatened  tubercular  trouble. 
He  was  accidentally  drowned  in  Saranac  Lake  about  midnight, 
April  12,  1899.  The  body  was  recovered  May  12,  1899,  and  on 
May  14,  1899,  was  buried  in  Plainfield,  New  Jersey. 

He  was  unmarried. 


Thomas  Cann  Quincy  Trask 

Head  of  the  Department  of  History,  Commercial  High  School, 
Albany  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

Residence,  1081  Park  Place,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

Trask  is  the  only  son  of  Brainard  P.  Trask  and  Mary  Sanger 
(Cann)  Trask,  who  were  married  in  1869.     The  family  is  Eng- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


399 


lish,  descended  from  Ormond  Trask,  one  of  the  first  planters 
of  Beverly,  Massachusetts,  in  1625 ;  his  son,  Edward,  was 
killed  at  Bloody  Brook  in  King  Philip's  War,  1675.  The  father 
(born  August  6,  1834,  in  Framingham,  Massachusetts)  is  a  son 


THOMAS    C.    Q.    TRASK 


of  Reverend  George  Trask  and  Nancy  (Quincy)  Trask  (a  sister 
of  Josiah  Quincy).  He  is  a  teacher  and  lawyer;  during  the 
Civil  War  he  served  in  the  Navy  and  at  the  battle  of  the 
Merrimac  and  Monitor  was  an  Ensign  on  the  Congress.  Mrs. 
Trask  (born  January  21,  1851,  in  Wilmington,  Delaware,  a 
graduate  of  Boston  College)  was  descended  from  Captain 
George  Barbour  (Dedham,  Massachusetts,  1635),  the  chief 
military  officer  of  the  district.  She  also  traces  her  ancestry  in 
a  direct  line  from  Richard  Sanger,  the  first  man  on  the  Com- 
mittee of  Safety  with  President  Locke,  and  one  of  the  Second 
Provincial  Congress. 

Thomas  Trask  was  born  August  18,  1870,  in  Frederick,  Mary- 
land, and  was  prepared  at  the  School  of  the  Lackawanna,  Scran- 
ton,    Pennsylvania.     In   college   he   played   tennis,   baseball  and 


4oo  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

football,  and  was  a  member  of  Theta  Delta  Chi ;    he  received 
one-year  honors  in  history. 

He  has  taught  continuously  since  graduation,  as  instructor  in 
the  Brooklyn  Latin  School,  1893-95  J  Newburgh,  New  York, 
Academy,  1895-99;  Morris  High  School,  1899- 1900,  and  from 
1902  to  1910;  Peter  Cooper  High  School,  New  York  City, 
1900-01.  In  1907  he  was  fourth  on  the  eligible  list  of  New  York 
City  Civil  Service  Examiners  for  the  position  of  first  assistant 
principal,  and  in  February,  1910,  was  appointed  head  of  the 
department  of  history  in  the  Commercial  High  School,  Brooklyn. 
He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Yale  in  1903.  He  has  been 
a  member  of  the  American  History  Association  since  1902. 

He  states  that  in  politics  he  is  a  Mugwump  with  Progressive 
tendencies.  He  was  treasurer  of  the  Young  Men's  Democratic 
Club  of  the  Bronx  in  1902-03,  and  gives  occasional  lectures  on 
politics  and  sociology.  During  the  war  he  has  given  much  time 
to  draft  board  work. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

His  clubs  are  the  Theta  Delta  Chi,  Crescent  Athletic,  West  Side 
and  Kings  County  Tennis. 

He  was  married  June  28,  1900,  in  New  Windsor,  Connecticut, 
to  Mary  Cornell,  from  whom  he  was  divorced  in  191 5.  On 
February  8,  19 16,  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  he  married 
Jessie  Parsche,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Chicago 
and  the  New  York  Hospital.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Francis 
Xavier  Parsche,  a  manufacturer  in  Chicago,  and  Margaret 
(Crawford)  Parsche.  They  have  one  daughter,  Margaret  Craw- 
ford, born  November  5,  1916. 


Charles  Gallaudet  Trumbull 

Vice-president,  secretary,  and  director  of  The  Sunday  School  Times 
Company,  103 1  Walnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 

Residence,  432   State  Road,   Cynwyd,   Pennsylvania 

Trumbull  is  a  son  of  Henry  Clay  and  Alice  Cogswell  (Gallau- 
det) Trumbull,  who  were  married  May  23,  1854,  and  had  seven 
other  children:  Sophy  D.  (Trumbull)  Wattles;  May  (Trum- 
bull) Field;  Alice  G.  (Trumbull)  Sparhawk ;  Annie  S.  (Trum- 
bull) Howard;   Katharine  (Trumbull),  wife  of  Samuel  Scoville, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


401 


Jr.,  Yale  '93;  Fannie  Webb  Trumbull  (died  August  13,  1863)  ; 
and  Henry  Camp  Trumbull  (died  September  21,  1869).  The 
Trumbull  family  is  descended  from  Elder  Brewster  of  Plymouth 
Colony.     Many   of   the   earlier   generations   were   graduates   of 


CHARLES    G.    TRUMBULL 


Yale ;  the  first  recorded  is  John  Trumbull,  who  received  his 
degree  in  1735.  Henry  Clay  Trumbull  (born  June  8,  1830,  in 
Stonington,  Connecticut ;  died  December  8,  1903,  in  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania)  was  educated  at  Williston  Seminary,  expect- 
ing to  go  to  Yale,  but  ill  health  prevented.  He  received  the 
honorary  degrees  of  M.A.  from  Yale  in  1866,  D.D.  in  1881 
from  Lafayette,  and  from  the  University  of  the  City  of  New 
York  in  1882.  He  was  employed  by  the  New  York,  New  Haven 
and  Hartford  Railroad  in  1851,  appointed  a  missionary  of  the 
American  Sunday-school  Union  in  1858,  and  was  editor  of  The 
Sunday  School  Times  from  1875  to  1903.  During  the  Civil 
War  he  served  as  Chaplain  with  the  10th  Connecticut  Regiment. 
Mrs.  Trumbull  (born  September  15,  1833,  in  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut; died  August  23,  1891,  in  Philadelphia)  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Peter  Elisha  Gallaudet,  who  fled  from  France  after  the 


4Q2  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


French  Revolution  and  the  Edict  of  Nantes  in  1685,  settling  at 
New  Rochelle,  New  York,  about  1700.  She  attended  the  Hart- 
ford Seminary  for  Young  Ladies,  being  a  piano  teacher  from 
the  age  of  eighteen,  when  her  father  died.  Additional  facts 
regarding  the  Gallaudet  family  are  contained  in  the  biography 
of  Edson  F.  Gallaudet. 

Charles  G.  Trumbull  was  born  February  20,  1872,  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Hamilton  School  in 
Philadelphia.  He  received  Junior  and  Senior  colloquies,  was 
a  member  of  the  University  Banjo  Club,  went  out  for  track 
athletics,  winning  a  copper  cup  in  the  high  jump  Freshman  year, 
was  superintendent  of  the  Bethany  Mission  School,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  Psi  Upsilon. 

He  has  been  with  J.  D.  Wattles  &  Company,  publishers  of 
The  Sunday  School  Times,  Philadelphia,  since  graduation, 
becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  and  associate  editor  in  1897. 
He  was  elected  secretary  in  1900  and  is  now  vice-president  and 
director. 

He  has  published  "A  Pilgrimage  to  Jerusalem,"  1904;  "Tak- 
ing Men  Alive,"  1907;  "Men  Who  Dared,"  1907;  "Messages 
for  the  Morning  Watch,"  1912;  "Anthony  Comstock,  Fighter," 
1913;    and  a  number  of  pamphlets. 

He  is  a  companion  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion ; 
honorary  secretary  for  America  of  the  Palestine  Exploration 
Fund,  Great  Britain ;  associate  member  of  the  Victoria  Institute 
of  Great  Britain;  member  of  the  International  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Bible  Study  Advisory  Committee;  treasurer  of  the  British  and 
Allied  Soldiers  Evangelistic  Campaign;  the  U.  S.  Council  of 
the  Inland-South  America  Missionary  Union;  the  University 
Museum,  University  of  Pennsylvania;  the  Presbyterian  Social 
Union  of  Philadelphia;  the  Yale  Alumni  Association,  and  City 
Club  of  Philadelphia. 

He  is  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  teaches  a  Men's 
Bible  Class.     In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

He  was  married  November  18,  1897,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Aline  Marguerite,  daughter  of  Edward  vanOrden,  a  retired 
business  man,  and  Margaret  (Vanderhoof)  vanOrden. 

They  have  no  children. 

Trumbull  writes :  "As  I  think  back  into  my  feelings  when  I 
was  living  in  228  Durfee,  and  recall  how  hopelessly  aged,  with 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  403 

life  all  behind  them,  seemed  the  'old  graduates'  who  were  back 
in  New  Haven  at  their  Twenty-fifth,  I  marvel  how  I  could 
ever  have  felt  that  way.  You  and  I  know  now  that  we're  just 
fairly  at  the  beginning  of  what  we  really  want  to  do  and,  please 
God,  confidently  expect  to  do.  We've  been  getting  ready  since 
1893 ;  now  for  the  next  twenty-five  years  we're  going  to  do  it. 
And  if  we've  done  some  things  that  haven't  helped  us,  but  have 
rather  hindered  in  getting  ready,  we're  not  leaving  them  for- 
ever behind. 

"I'm  grateful  for  the  traveling  I've  been  privileged  to  have; 
saw  how  things  were  'made  in  Germany'  way  back  in  '95 ;  have 
been  several  times  in  England  and  Scotland  and  rejoiced  in  close 
acquaintance  with  some  of  the  sturdiest  of  Scotch  and  English 
friends,  in  their  intimate  family  life  in  Edinburgh,  Glasgow, 
London ;  and  traveled  the  whole  length  of  the  Holy  Land,  from 
Damascus  to  Jerusalem,  on  horseback,  so  that  the  present  con- 
quest of  that  land  by  Christian  powers,  preparatory  to  giving 
it  to  its  God-covenanted  owners  the  Jews,  means  more  to  me 
than  general  news.  And  I  have  been  taken  constantly  by  my 
work  into  almost  every  part  of  North  America  except  the 
Pacific  Coast. 

"My  married  life  has  been  an  ideal  one,  and  still  is, — come  to 
'The  Willows,'  at  Cynwyd,  Pennsylvania,  and  you'll  see  why. 

"But,  fellows,  as  I  study  Swayne's  request  for  an  unrestrained 
expression  of  our  aims  and  special  interests,  I  cannot  but  say 
that,  as  I  look  back  over  twenty-five  years,  and  look  about  me 
now,  and  look  ahead,  the  biggest  and  best  and  only  interest 
worthy  to  be  counted  worth  while  in  life  as  I've  seen  it  and  still 
hope  to  see  it  is  Jesus  Christ. 

"Some  of  you  know  what  a  miserable  imitation  of  the  real 
thing  I've  often  made  of  it;  but  He  is  the  real  thing;  and 
whenever  I've  let  Him  fill  my  life  He  has  infinitely  more  than 
satisfied.  This  war  crisis,  while  it's  got  to  be  fought  through 
and  won,  has  made  many  a  man  think  more  of  God  and  His 
plans  for  this  world.  And  so  I  can  only  say — and  none  of  us 
would  be  fools  enough  to  bring  any  affectation  into  this  word 
among  ourselves — that  I  hope  that  the  coming  years  will  find 
Christ  at  the  absolute  center  of  things  for  me;  and  that  I  may 
do  my  part  as  I've  never  yet  done  it  to  satisfy  hungry  folks 
evervwhere  with  the  Good  News  about  Himself." 


404 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Harry  Selden  Vaile 

Principal,  Gladstone   School,   1231    South  Robey   Street,   Chicago,  Illinois 
Residence,  603  North  Sixth  Avenue,  Maywood,  Illinois 

Vaile  is  a  son  of  Edwin  Orlando  and  Emma  L.  (Brainard) 
Vaile,  who  were  married  July  14,  1870,  and  had  five  other 
children:  Robert  Vaile,  B.A.  University  of  Michigan  1898; 
Edwin  Orlando  Vaile,  Jr.,   B.A.  Yale   1901  ;    Florence  Isabella 

Vaile,  B.A.  Smith  1904;  Anna 
Elizabeth,  and  Emma  Vaile. 
Edwin  O.  Vaile  (born  No- 
vember 21,  1843,  m  Piqua, 
Ohio)  is  the  son  of  Jonathan 
and  Elizabeth  (Estabrook) 
Vaile,  whose  ancestors  came 
from  England  or  Wales.  He 
attended  the  University  of 
Michigan  in  1865-66,  and  was 
a  teacher  in  the  public  schools 
of  Columbus,  Ohio,  from  1868 
to  1 87 1,  in  the  Woodward 
High  School,  Cincinnati, 
1871-78,  the  public  schools  in 
Chicago,  1878-81,  and  an 
editor  and  publisher  of  a 
school  journal,  1880-1905. 
Since  1880  he  has  lived  in 
Oak  Park,  Illinois.  Mrs. 
Vaile  (born  July  15,  1844,  in 
Canfield,  Ohio)  is  the  daugh- 
ter of  Calvin  C.  and  Sophia  (Fitch)  Brainard. 

Harry  S.  Vaile  was  born  April  22,  1871,  in  Columbus,  Ohio, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  Oak  Park  (Illinois)  High  School.  He 
received  philosophical  oration  appointments  in  Junior  and  Senior 
years,  a  Berkeley  Premium  of  the  first  grade,  and  was  a  member 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Since  graduation  he  has  taught  in  Chicago  high  schools,  in 
1910  being  appointed  principal  of  the  John  Crerar  School  after 
sixteen  years  in  the  Hyde  Park  High  School.  In  September, 
191 2,  he  was  advanced  to  the  principalship  of  the  Froebel  Day 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


405 


and  Evening  School  and  three  years  later  he  was  made  principal 
of  the  Gladstone  School,  Chicago. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Red  Cross,  the  Fatherless  Children  of 
France,  and  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
Oak  Place,  Illinois. 

In  politics  he  is  an  Independent,  inclining  to  the  Republican 
party. 

He  was  married  June  29,  1896,  in  May  wood,  Illinois,  to  Carrie 
A.,  daughter  of  Frank  H.  and  Harriet  Edith  (Herring- 
shaw)  Merrill.  Her  father  is  in  the  Chicago  office  of  the 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York.  Mrs.  Vaile 
attended  the  University  of  Minnesota  and  is  active  in  Woman's 
Club  and  Red  Cross  work.  They  have  two  children :  Adeline 
Elizabeth,  born  November  29,  1903,  and  Edwin  Merrill,  born 
April  10,  1906. 


*William  Henry  Vanderbilt 

Died  May  23,  1892 


William  Henry  Vanderbilt 
was  the  son  of  Cornelius  and 
Alice  Claypoole  (Gwynne) 
Vanderbilt.  Cornelius  Van- 
derbilt, born  on  Staten  Island, 
New  York,  a  capitalist,  con- 
nected with  the  New  York 
Central  and  Harlem  River 
Railroad,  died  in  1899.  Alice 
Claypoole  (Gwynne)  Vander- 
bilt was  a  resident  of  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  before  her  mar- 
riage. The  following  are 
Yale  relatives :  an  uncle,  Fred- 
erick William  Vanderbilt, 
1876  S. ;  three  brothers,  Cor- 
nelius Vanderbilt,  B.A.  1895, 
Alfred  Gwynne  Vanderbilt, 
B.A.  1899;  and  Reginald 
Claypoole  Vanderbilt,  B.A. 
1902;    and  three  cousins, 


WILLIAM    H.    VANDERBILT 


406 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


James  Watson  Webb,  B.A.  1907,  William  Seward  Webb,  B.A. 
1909,  and  Vanderbilt  Webb.  B.A.  191 3. 

W.  H.  Vanderbilt  was  born  December  21,  1870,  in  New  York 
City,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
New  Hampshire.  As  a  Freshman  he  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
Crew.  He  was  vice-president  of  the  Class  Boat  Club,  one  of  the 
board  of  governors  of  the  University  Club,  and  a  member  of  the 
Junior  Promenade  Committee  and  of  Psi  Upsilon. 

He  died  May  23,  1892,  of  typhoid  fever,  but  his  degree  was  con- 
ferred post  obitum  in  1893. 


ISIDORE   WACHSMAN 


Isidore  Wachsman 

Secretary,  Board  of  Contract  and  Supply  of  the  City  of  Albany,  City  Hall, 

Albany,  New  York 

Residence,  19  South  Pine  Avenue,  Albany,  New  York 

Samuel  Wachsman  (born  in  1823,  in  Cracow,  Austria;  died 
there,  in  1889)  came  to  this  country  in  1867,  and  resided  in 
Brooklyn  and  New  York  City  until  1876,  where  he  was  in  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  407 

employ  of  Colgate  &  Company,  soap  manufacturers  and  per- 
fumers, for  a  number  of  years,  then  in  the  same  line  of  business 
for  himself;  from  1876  until  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  in  the 
hotel  business  in  Albany,  New  York.  He  married  Charlotte 
Pitzele  (born  August  9,  1842,  in  Cracow,  Austria;  died  in 
Albany,  New  York,  July  16,  191 7)  in  1864,  and  they  had  one 
son,  our  classmate.  By  a  previous  marriage  he  had  three  sons 
and  one  daughter. 

Isidore  Wachsman  was  born  July  11,  1870,  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  and  was  prepared  at  a  private  school,  Albany  public  schools, 
and  at  the  Albany  High  School.  He  received  philosophical  ora- 
tion appointments,  Junior  and  Senior  years,  and  is  a  member  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  one  year  at  the  Albany  Law  School  he  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.,  and  was  then  in  the  office  of  the  Corporation 
Counsel,  Albany,  during  1894-95,  being  admitted  to  the  New 
York  Bar  in  June,  1895.  He  has  since  practiced  in  Albany, — as  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Reick  &  Wachsman  from  January  1,  1896, 
until  its  dissolution,  and  then  alone.  He  has  been  secretary  of 
the  Board  of  Contract  and  Supply,  of  Albany,  since  1900.  On 
May  27,  1909,  he  was  shot  and  seriously  wounded  by  a  demented 
Italian,  but  after  a  long  illness  was  fully  restored  to  health. 

He  is  a  Republican.     He  is  affiliated  with  the  Jewish  Church. 

He  has  not  married. 

Wachsman  writes:  "The  past  fourteen  years  of  my  life  have 
been  devoted  practically  to  two  things, — my  work  and  the  care 
of  my  mother.  Stricken  at  the  time  of  our  Decennial  from 
which  I  was  hurriedly  called  home,  she  was  a  helpless  invalid 
from  that  time  until  her  death,  last  July.  Her  condition  was 
such  that  I  never  felt  safe  in  going  very  far  from  home  so  that 
I  have  traveled  but  very  little.  Her  death  undoubtedly  means  a 
change  in  my  life  but  I  am  unable  at  this  time  to  state  exactly 
what  form  it  will  take. 

"Living  in  the  suburbs  and  circumstanced  as  I  was,  I  took  up 
gardening  and  from  this  I  have  derived  considerable  pleasure 
and  much  benefit.,, 


408 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Robert  Buchanan  Wade 

Broker,  Room  909,  66  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Residence,  1261  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Wade  is  the  son  of  R.  B.  Wade,  a  banker,  who  graduated  at 
West  Point  Military  Academy  in  1865.  He  was  born  October 
26,  1870,  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  was  prepared  for  Yale 

at  Smith  Academy.  In  col- 
lege he  was  president  of  the 
Yale  Athletic  Association  and 
of  the  Intercollegiate  Ath- 
letic Association ;  chairman  of 
the  Senior  Promenade  Com- 
mittee; editor  of  the  Pot 
Pourri,  and  a  member  of  the 
following:  the  Yale  Athletic 
Team,  University  Club,  Class 
Day  Committee,  Cup  Commit- 
tee, Psi  Upsilon,  Scroll  and 
Key. 

For  two  years  after  gradu- 
ation he  studied  at  Harvard 
Law  School  and  the  next  year 
was  with  Masten  and  Nichols 
in  New  York  City.     In  1898 
he  was  mining  in  Butte,  Mon- 
tana.    In   January,    1900,    he 
was  connected  with  Bennett, 
Wasserman  and  Company, 
stock  and  bond  brokers  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri.      He  moved  to  New 
York  City  in  1906,  where  he  is  engaged  in  the  brokerage  business. 
He  was  married  July  25,  1907,  to  Clara  Louise,  daughter  of 
Hinman  H.  Clark  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 


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ROBERT    B.    WADE 


*Richard  Charles  Wells  Wadsworth 

Died  August  2,  1905 

R.  C.  W.  Wadsworth  was  the  son  of  Strong  and  Maria  C. 
(Phelps)  Wadsworth,  who  had  one  other  child,  a  daughter. 
Strong  Wadsworth  was  born  in  Hastings,  Oswego  County,  New 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


409 


York,  September  10,  1833,  the  son  of  Daniel  Wadsworth  of 
Farmington,  Connecticut.  He  attended  Beloit  College,  Wiscon- 
sin, for  three  years,  and  entered  the  Class  of  185 1,  Yale,  at  the 
beginning  of  Senior  year.  After  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1853, 
he  practiced  for  about  a  year  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  after  which  he 
engaged  in  business  as  a  real  estate  and  stock  broker.  In  1866 
he  moved  to  New  York  City,  where  he  was  a  member  of  the  Stock 
Exchange  until  his  death,  which  occurred  July  1,  1887,  in  Staple- 
ton,  Staten  Island,  New  York.  Mrs.  Wadsworth  was  Maria  C. 
Phelps  of  Delavan,  Wisconsin,  before  her  marriage. 

Wadsworth  was  born  September  25,  1870,  in  Delavan,  Wiscon- 
sin, but  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  the  Staten  Island 
Academy  and  Latin  School.  As  a  Junior  in  college  he  was  chosen 
editor  and  business  manager  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine. 
He  won  a  Townsend  premium,  received  a  first  dispute  Junior 
and  a  second  dispute  Senior 
appointment,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Chi  Delta  Theta,  Psi 
Upsilon,  and  Wolf's  Head. 

After  graduation  he  was 
first  a  reporter,  then  assistant 
financial  editor,  and  from  1900 
to  1902,  assistant  city  editor 
of  the  New  York  Evening 
Post.  He  resigned  this  posi- 
tion to  become  private  secre- 
tary to  Dr.  Ernest  J.  Lederle 
(Ph.D.  Columbia  1886), 
Health  Commissioner  of  New 
York  City  under  the  reform 
administration  of  Mayor  Low. 
On  January  1,  1904,  he  be- 
came secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Lederle  Laboratories, 
and  was  engaged  in  this  busi- 
ness until  he  died,  of  typhoid 
fever,  at  the  Roosevelt  Hospi^ 

tal,    New    York    City,    August    2,    1905.     Burial    was    in    the 
Moravian  Cemetery,  New  Dorp,  Staten  Island,  New  York. 

He  was  married  November  21,  1903,  to  Alice  Gertrude,  eldest 
daughter  of  James  Benedict,  a  retired  merchant  of  New  York 
City.     They  had  no  children. 


RICHARD    C    W.    WADSWORTH 


4io 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Alexander  Hamilton  Wallis 

Colchester,  Connecticut 

Hamilton  and  Alice  (Waldron)  Wallis  were  married  October 
13,  1868,  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  and  had  four  children: 
Emmeline  Waldron  (Wallis)  Dunn;  Nathaniel  Waldron  Wallis, 
B.A.   Yale    1897;   Clinton   Geib   Wallis,    Ph.B.   Yale    1897,   and 


ALEXANDER    H.    WALLIS 


our  classmate.  The  father  (born  November  25,  1842,  in  New 
York  City;  died  April  1,  1916,  in  Orange,  New  Jersey)  is  a 
son  of  Alexander  Hamilton  and  Elizabeth  (Geib)  Wallis  of 
New  York  City ;  his  great-grandfather,  Joseph  Wallis,  was  born 
in  London,  England,  in  1758,  was  pressed  into  the  British  Navy, 
sent  to  this  country,  and  deserted  in  1776,  and  settled  in  New 
York.  He  received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1863,  and 
LL.B.  at  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  1865.  From  1865  to  1905 
he  practiced  law,  being  a  member  of  the  firms  of  Wilson  &  Wal- 
lis, Marsh,  Wilson  &  Wallis,  and  Wilson  &  Wallis  up  to  the  date 
of  his  retirement  in  1905.  He  married  Josephine  B.  Taylor, 
June  29,  1905,  at  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and  they  had  a  son 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  41 1 

and  a  daughter.  He  resided  in  Colchester,  Connecticut,  from 
1905  until  his  death.  Our  classmate's  mother  (born  April  21, 
1846,  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania;  died  at  East  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  December  7,  1899)  was  the  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Wal- 
dron  of  Stonington,  Connecticut,  and  Emmeline  Graham  of 
Philadelphia,  and  was  descended  from  George  Waldron  who 
came  from  England  in  the  seventeenth  century  and  lived  in 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  Bristol,  Rhode  Island.  On  the  ma- 
ternal side  her  lineage  was  Scotch  and  Dutch. 

Alexander  Hamilton  Wallis  was  born  March  29,  1872,  in  Jersey 
City,  New  Jersey,  had  a  private  tutor  until  1880,  attended  the 
Ashland  Public  School  at  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and  Newark 
Academy.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Football  Team,  the 
Class  Crew,  the  University  Football  Team,  the  University  Club, 
Psi  Upsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

In  1895  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the  New  York 
Law  School  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  June  of  that  year, 
practicing  in  New  York  City  until  1898  when  he  took  a  position 
as  salesman  with  Thomas  Kech  &  Son,  cut  soles  and  leather, 
Boston,  Massachusetts.  From  1902  to  1903  he  was  with  the 
New  Jersey  Street  Railway,  Newark,  New  Jersey,  and  in  1904 
with  the  United  Railways  of  San  Francisco,  California.  For 
several  years  he  has  resided  in  Colchester,  Connecticut. 

He  is  a  Republican.  In  191 5  he  joined  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Colchester. 

He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Colchester  Company  of  the 
Connecticut  Home  Guard  and  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Corporal. 

He  has  not  married. 


John  Dorrance  Warnock 

Head  of  the  Department  of  Latin,  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown, 
Pennsylvania 

Residence,  711  High  Street,  Pottstown,  Pennsylvania 

Warnock  is  the  only  living  son  of  Hugh  and  Susan  Maria 
(Hurlbut)  Warnock,  who  were  married  June  7,  1867,  and  had 
two  other  sons:  Charles  Willets  Warnock  (died  February  20, 
1896),  and  William  Aaron  Warnock  (died  February  1,  1917). 
Hugh  Warnock    (born  June  22,    1810,   in  Bally  friars,    County 


412 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Down,  Ireland;  died  April  II,  1886,  in  Geneva,  New  York)  was 
a  farmer,  residing  in  Flushing,  Long  Island,  from  1830  to  1851, 
and  later  moving  to  Geneva,  New  York.  In  1847  he  married 
Martha  S.  Willets.     Our  classmate's  mother  (born  July  15,  1832, 


JOHN    D.    WARNOCK 


in  Arkport,  New  York;  died  December  26,  1873,  m  Geneva,  New 
York)  was  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Hurlbut,  who  came  from 
England  in  1636,  and  settled  in  Massachusetts  Colony. 

John  D.  Warnock  was  born  February  11,  1868,  in  Geneva, 
and  attended  the  Geneva  High  School  and  Hobart  College  before 
entering  Yale.  He  received  philosophical  oration  appointments, 
a  third  Lucius  F.  Robinson  Latin  Prize,  a  Berkeley  Premium  in 
Latin  Composition,  was  treasurer  of  the  Yale  Union,  a  member 
of  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  was  a  Douglas  Fellow  at  Yale  from  1893  to  1896,  studying 
for  the  ministry,  and  an  instructor  at  the  Episcopal  Academy, 
Cheshire,  Connecticut,  until  1899  when  he  received  the  degree  of 
Ph.D.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  teaching  at  The  Hill  School, 
Pottstown,  Pennsylvania,  being  in  charge  of  the  Latin. 

He  has  compiled  two  pamphlets  containing  the  material 
embodied  in  all  the  examination  papers  in  Latin  for  entrance  to 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  413 


leading  colleges  of  the  United  States  issued  within  the  last  ten 
years,  which  were  published  by  the  University  Publishing  Com- 
pany, Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  1917,  under  the  titles  "First  Latin," 
and  "Second  Latin." 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  but  is  a  supporter  of  President 
Wilson.  He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
a  member  of  the  Session ;  a  director  of  the  Associated  Charities 
of  Pottstown,  and  Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee. 

He  was  married  September  1,  1897,  in  Rochester,  New  York, 
to  Gertrude,  daughter  of  Cassius  Carrol  Peck,  a  heating 
engineer,  and  Mary  D.  (Kelly)  Peck.  They  have  three 
children:  Constance,  born  October  30,  1899;  Dorrance  Hurlbut, 
born   November  4,    1900,  and   Charles  Alden,  born   September 

23,  1903- 

Warnoek's  letter  follows:  "I  had  always  supposed  that  the 
Recording  Angel  could  be  evaded  till  the  end  of  my  life,  but,  to 
my  dismay,  I  find  you  assuming  that  prerogative  along  with  many 
others  in  your  helpfully  busy  life,  and  requiring  of  me  an 
accounting  in  mid-career. 

"What  am  I  talking  about?  The  war.  Thinking  about ?  The 
war.  My  travels?  From  home  to  school  and  return,  two 
hundred  yards  each  way;  but  in  imagination  I  go  to  the  limits 
of  that  'far-flung  battle  line' ;  for  like  the  school-master  in  Old 
England,  many  of  the  boys  'over  there'  have  passed  through  my 
class-room,  and  they  have  conducted  me  in  thought  into  all  the 
vicissitudes  of  this  tremendous  strife.  I  have  no  accomplishment 
apart  from  them,  and  those  that  shall  follow  them. 

"As  to  a  hobby,  my  recreation  is  that, — golf ;  and  my  most 
absorbing  ambition  is  to  make  the  round  in  'par.'  At  the  present 
rate  of  achievement,  this  will  require  999  years. 

"Space  would  fail  to  tell  about  my  family.  You  should  have 
been  here  this  Christmas  Day,  and  seen  us  reunited,  our  daughter 
back  from  school  and  looking  forward  to  Vassar  next  year ;  the 
two  boys  discussing  the  new  military  course  at  Yale,  one  ready 
for  it  in  the  autumn,  the  other  with  three  years  yet  to  wait ;  and 
my  wife,  'the  very  pulse  of  the  machine.'     Well,  it  was  great! 

"And  let  me  say  to  my  classmates,  in  confidence,  that  the  only 
reason  I  deserve  all  this,  if  I  do  at  all,  and  the  chief  reason  I 
can  appreciate  it,  is  the  background  rich  in  memories,  unfailing 
in  inspiration,  formed  by  the  years  spent  at  Yale,  together  with 
the  associations  dating  from  that  time  and  growing  more  precious 
every  year." 


4i4  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Lemuel  Aiken  Welles 

Attorney  for  the  American  Can  Company,  120  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Bronxville,  New  York 

Welles  is  a  son  of  Roger  and  Mercy  Delano  (Aiken)  Welles, 
who  were  married  June  16,  1858,  and  had  six  other  children: 
Martin  Welles,  B.A.  Yale  1882;  Mary  C.  Welles,  B.A.  Smith 
1883,   Ph.D.   Yale    1904;    Roger  Welles,   United   States   Naval 


LEMUEL    A.    WELLES 


Academy  1884;  Edwin  Stanley  Welles,  Yale  ^-'90;  Grace 
Mather  Welles,  and  Sarah  Aiken  Welles  (died  November  3, 
1870).  Roger  Welles  (born  March  7,  1829,  in  Newington, 
Connecticut;  died  May  15,  1904,  in  the  same  town)  was  a  son 
of  Roger  and  Electa  (Stanley)  Welles  and  was  seventh  in  descent 
from  Thomas  Welles,  Governor  of  Connecticut,  who  came 
from  England  and  settled  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  in  1637.  His 
grandfather,  Roger,  and  great-grandfather,  Solomon,  gradu- 
ated from  Yale  in  1775  and  1739  respectively.  He  graduated 
from  Yale  in  185 1  and,  with  the  exception  of  three  years 
(1857-60)  which  he  spent  in  Minnesota,  he  resided  in  Newj 
ington,    and    practiced    law,    having    offices    at    Hartford,    Con- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  415 

necticut.  In  1864  and  1871  he  was  a  representative  in  the 
Connecticut  Legislature.  Mrs.  Welles  (born  August  31,  1832, 
in  Fairhaven,  Massachusetts)  is  a  daughter  of  Captain  Lemuel 
S.  Akin  and  Sarah  (Coffin)  Akin,  of  Fairhaven,  fourth  in 
descent  from  Captain  John  Akin,  who  settled  in  Dartmouth, 
Massachusetts,  before  1689,  and  who  is  supposed  to  have  come 
from  Scotland. 

Lemuel  A.  Welles  was  born  November  18,  1870,  in  Newington, 
Connecticut,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Hartford  Public  High 
School.  He  received  high  oration  appointments,  a  second  Ten- 
Eyck  Prize  at  the  Junior  Exhibition,  was  portfolio  editor  on  the 
Yale  Literary  Magazine,  Class  Orator,  a  member  of  Chi  Delta 
Theta,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

In  1893-94,  he  was  a  Macy  Fellow,  studying  history  and 
philosophy,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  June,  1895.  The 
following  two  years  he  spent  in  the  New  York  Law  School, 
graduating  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1896  and  being  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  New  York  City,  where  he  began  to  practice.  Since 
1 90 1  he  has  been  attorney  for  the  American  Can  Company,  and 
is  a  director  of  the  Metal  &  Thermit  Corporation  and  the 
Duesenberg  Motors  Corporation. 

He  has  published  "Letters  of  Colonel  Nathan  Whiting  written 
from  camp  during  the  French  and  Indian  War"  (Volume  6, 
New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society  Papers).  A  paper  on 
"The  Loss  of  Charter  Government  in  Connecticut"  is  now  in  the 
press. 

He  is  a  Republican.  In  April,  191 2,  he  was  elected  Com- 
mitteeman-at-Large  from  the  town  of  Eastchester,  County  of 
Westchester,  New  York,  the  same  year  being  village  counsel  of 
Bronxville  (donating  the  salary  of  the  office  to  the  village). 
He  says :  "As  Republican  County  Committeeman-at-Large,  I 
succeeded  in  electing  a  reform  supervisor  of  the  town  with  the 
result  that  his  Democratic  predecessor  served  a  term  in  state 
prison  for  embezzling  town  funds.  When  this  reform  was 
accomplished  I  resigned  the  position  and  gave  up  politics."  He 
belonged  to  the  Connecticut  Naval  Militia  in  1894. 

From  191 1  to  1917  he  was  a  deacon  and  chairman  of  the 
Finance  Committee  in  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  of  Bronx- 
ville. 

His  clubs  are  the  University,  Yale,  Bankers,  Society  of  Colo- 
nial Wars,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  all  of  New  York;   the  New 


416  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

York  County  Lawyers'  Association;  Gramatan  Lodge,  No.  927, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons  (treasurer,  191 5-17,  trustee,  1918)  ; 
Connecticut  Historical  Society,  and  New  Haven  Colony  Histori- 
cal Society.  He  was  recently  elected  to  graduate  membership  in 
the  Elizabethan  Club. 

He  was  married  July  12,  1906,  in  New  Castle,  to  Mary 
(Cotton)  Tufts,  daughter  of  William  Wallace  and  Anna 
(Moses)  Cotton  of  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire.  Mrs.  Welles 
had  one  son  by  her  previous  marriage:  Nathan  Tufts  (Yale 
1920).  They  have  two  children:  Dorothy,  born  February  1, 
1908,  and  Roger,  born  May  9,   1912. 

Welles  writes :  "Travels:  Spent  the  summer  of  1905  taking 
testimony  in  Germany  and  Holland  in  a  chancery  suit;  in  1906 
visited,  with  Mrs.  Welles,  Switzerland ;  have  been  to  the  Pacific 
coast  on  business  more  than  once. 

"Special  Interests:  Have  made  a  study  of  American,  and 
particularly  early  New  England  history  and  have  a  collection  of 
books  on  New  England  and  of  early  Connecticut  imprints,  and 
of  historical  society  publications.  Have  read  papers  before  the 
Connecticut  Historical  Society  and  the  New  Haven  Colony 
Historical  Society,  and  expect  to  publish  further  results  of 
historical  research.  Have  been  and  am  strongly  impressed  with 
the  great  importance  of  maintaining  unimpaired  our  form  of 
representative  government  established  by  the  United  States  Con- 
stitution, and  believe  that  to-day  the  greatest  internal  danger 
to  the  Republic  is  from  the  proposition  of  the  initiative,  referen- 
dum and  recall. 

"Recreations:  Automobiling,  horseback  riding  and  trout 
fishing. 

"Beliefs:  Am  still  old  fashioned  enough  to  'doubt  not  through 
the  ages  one  increasing  purpose  runs.'  " 


Ernest  Hubbard  Wells 

Lawyer,  150  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  544  West  i62d  Street,  New  York  City 

Wells  is  a  son  of  Lewis  Gray  and  Mary  Ellen  Hubbard  (Wet- 
more)  Wells,  who  were  married  in  1865  and  had  five  other  sons: 
Herbert  W.  Wells,  B.A.  Yale  1889;  Philip  P.  Wells,  B.A.  Yale 
1889;    Chauncey  W.  Wells,  B.A.  Yale  1896;    James  L.  Wells, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


417 


and  Thomas  F.  Wells  (died  in  Yucatan,  Mexico,  May,  1912). 
The  Wells  family  is  English,  being  descended  from  Thomas 
Welles,  Colonial  Governor  of  Connecticut.  This  branch  settled 
in  Stratford,  Connecticut.  Lewis  G.  Wells  (born  June  17,  1841, 
in  Columbus,  Georgia;    died  in  August,  1913,  in  Madison,  Wis- 


ERNEST    H.    WELLS 


consin)  had  a  grandmother  (a  Paterson)  whose  Scotch  ancestor 
was  sold  to  the  Colonies  as  an  indentured  servant  because  he  was 
a  Covenanter.  On  his  mother's  side  he  is  descended  from  the 
Grays  who  came  from  England  and  settled  in  Massachusetts. 
He  attended  a  private  school  until  eighteen  years  of  age  when 
he  went  to  California  and  worked  on  a  ranch  for  an  uncle,  Samuel 
Gray,  afterwards  being  a  clerk  in  the  Quartermaster  Depart- 
ment of  the  United  States  Army.  He  married  and  went  into  the 
dry  goods  business  in  Madison,  Wisconsin,  and  Grand  Rapids, 
Michigan,  but  gave  this  up  to  go  into  a  fruit  commission  com- 
pany in  Baltimore,  Maryland;  afterwards  he  was  employed  by 
Turner,  Day  &  Company,  manufacturers  of  axe,  pickaxe,  hammer, 
etc.,  handles.  The  firm  moved  to  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and 
became   known  as   Turner,   Day   &   Woolworth   Manufacturing 


4i8  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Company,  of  which  he  was  secretary  and  treasurer  until  he  sev- 
ered his  connection  with  it  in  1893.  In  1880  he  married  Eliza  J. 
Leech  of  Louisville.  Our  classmate's  mother  (born  in  1835  in 
Middletown,  Connecticut;  died  in  April,  1874,  in  Baltimore, 
Maryland)  was  also  of  English  descent,  her  paternal  ancestor, 
Thomas  Whitmore,  emigrated  in  the  early  part  of  the  Puritan 
Emigration.  He  had  the  rank  of  "gentleman,"  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  Middletown  and  had  seventeen  children.  A  grand- 
son, a  Colonial  judge  or  magistrate,  received  a  land  grant  from 
the  Governor  and  built  the  house  where  Mrs.  Wells  was  born, 
which  was  visited  by  the  elder  Timothy  Dwight  and  Jonathan 
Edwards,  whose  sister  married  into  the  family.  Judge  Wet- 
more  owned  a  number  of  slaves  who  were  divided  among  his 
children.  His  black  cook  planted  a  tree  on  his  place  which  is  still 
standing.  Mrs.  Wells  attended  district  and  private  schools,  was 
very  bookish  and  had  a  remarkable  memory,  being  able  to  repeat 
speeches  which  impressed  her,  word  for  word,  and  was  able  to 
quote  a  great  deal  of  prose  and  poetry.  A  cousin,  Reverend 
James  Wetmore,  graduated  from  Yale  in  171 4. 

Ernest  H.  Wells  was  born  June  12,  1870,  in  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, and  was  prepared  at  public  and  private  schools,  having  as  a 
teacher  Jason  W.  Chenault,  a  Harvard  graduate.  In  college  he 
received  a  Junior  colloquy  and  Senior  dispute  appointments,  and 
took  honors  in  political  science  in  Senior  year. 

Since  graduation  he  has  practiced  law  in  New  York  City.  He 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Yale  in  1900. 

He  is  secretary  of  the  Keewaydin  Camps  Company,  a  corpora- 
tion running  camps  in  Canada,  Vermont,  and  Massachusetts,  a 
secretary  of  the  Hidalgo  Steel  Company,  and  the  Carbolite  Chem- 
ical Company.  "It  was  formed  to  carry  out,  in  191 5,  some  Rus- 
sian ammunition  contracts  in  conjunction  with  the  Tennessee 
Copper  Company.  Two  mills  were  built  at  Copperhill,  Tennes- 
see, for  the  manufacture  of  T-N-T.  On  the  21st  of  March,  1916, 
the  fifty  tons  which  had  been  made  blew  up  and  away  went  my 
dreams  of  unearned  increment  together  with  a  substantial  earned 
decrement.  The  company  had  another  factory  at  Ridgefield 
Park,  New  Jersey,  for  the  manufacture  of  Phenol.  This  enter- 
prise failed  because  the  purchaser  or  man  who  gave  the  order 
refused  to  carry  out  his  contract." 

He  has  written  quite  a  number  of  articles  on  different  legal 
subjects  for  the   "Cyclopedia  of  Law  and  Procedure"   and  for  a 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  419 


work  called  "Ruling  Case  Law,"  having  also  done  some  revising 
work  for  the  last  named  publication. 

In  politics  he  is  an  independent  Democrat.  In  1913  he  was  a 
headquarters  man  for  the  Fusion  Committee  which  elected  Mayor 
Mitchell. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Yale  Club  of  New  York. 

He  has  never  married. 

Wells  writes  :  "Apart  from  trying  to  get  along  in  a  professional 
way,  I  have  been  much  interested  in  the  Spanish  language  and 
literature.  I  have  learned  to  speak  the  language  fluently  and  I 
have  read  the  modern  Spanish  literature  quite  widely,  particularly 
imaginative  literature.  I  refer  especially  to  novels  and  plays. 
Some  verse  of  course  I  have  read  and  considerable  of  Castelar, 
the  great  Spanish  orator  of  the  last  century.  I  have  studied  quite 
a  bit  of  the  Spanish  Civil  Code.  The  method  I  pursued  in  learn- 
ing the  language  was  to  study  first  Knapp's  Spanish  Grammar 
and  exercises,  reading  easy  prose,  etc.  I  then  went  to  live  in  a 
boarding  house  where  hardly  anything  but  Spanish  was  spoken. 
I  never  had  a  regular  teacher;  I  got  hold  of  it  after  awhile.  I 
have  carried  on  considerable  correspondence  in  the  language 
between  here  and  Cuba.  This  is  the  most  difficult  of  all:  To 
write  in  a  foreign  tongue.  I  have  read  quite  a  lot  of  President 
Eliot's  'five-foot-shelf  of  books.  It  is  a  splendid  collection.  Of 
course  I  had  read  before  many  of  the  works  composing  the  'Har- 
vard Classics,'  but  many  I  had  not  read  and  of  some  I  had  never 
heard.  I  have  read  some  of  the  Greek  tragedies  in  translation 
and  I  was  very  deeply  impressed  by  them." 


Carl  Westerfeld 

Attorney-at-law,  425  Call  Building,   San  Francisco,   California 
Residence,  The  Family,    San  Francisco,   California 

Westerfeld  is  a  son  of  Louis  and  Minna  (Westerfeld)  Wes- 
terfeld, who  were  married  February  14,  1864,  and  had  three 
other  children:  Emma  (Westerfeld)  Hertel,  Ida  (Westerfeld) 
Ankele,  and  H.  William  Westerfeld  (died  in  October,  1913,  in 
San  Francisco).  The  father  was  born  February  12,  1826,  in 
Neuenkirchen,  Westphalia,  Germany,  and  came  to  San  Francisco. 


42o  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


California,  in  1851,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  November 
26,  1903.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Schroth  &  Wester- 
feld. 

His  second  wife,  Adelheid  Peters,  whom  he  married  August 
19,  1893,  died  in  February,  1899.     Our  classmate's  mother,  who 


CARL    WESTERFELD 


came  to  San  Francisco  in  1863,  was  born  April  4,  1846,  in  Syke, 
near  Bremen,  Germany,  and  died  February  16,  1891,  in  San 
Francisco. 

Carl  Westerfeld  was  born  December  11,  1869,  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  was  prepared  at  St.  Matthew's  Hall,  San  Mateo,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Following  graduation  from  Yale  he  was  a  student  in  Hastings 
Law  School,  San  Francisco,  from  1893  to  1896,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  the  California  Bar  in  May  of  the  latter  year.  He  has 
since  practiced  independently  in  San  Francisco.  He  is  also 
president  of  the  Bay  Shore  Development  Company. 

From  191 1  to  1916  he  was  a  member  of  the  Fish  and  Game 
Commission  of  California  receiving  his  appointment  from  Gov- 
ernor   Johnson    and    since    1916    he    has    served    as    executive 


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421 


officer  of  the  commission.  He  served  as  president  of  the  Pacific 
Fisheries  Society  in  1914,  yachting  commissioner  from  California 
to  the  Panama-Pacific  Inter- 
national Exhibition,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  advisory  boards  of 
the  Federal  Migratory  Bird 
Law  and  of  the  U.  S.  Food 
Commission  of  California, 
and  an  associate  member  of 
the  Legal  Advisory  Board,  un- 
der the  selective  service  regu- 
lations. In  1916  he  attended 
the  training  camp  at  Monterey. 

He  is  a  member  of  the 
Family,  Olympic  Club,  Lag- 
unitas  Rod  and  Gun  Club, 
Elkhorn  Country  Club,  Corin- 
thian Yacht  Club  (Commo- 
dore, 1898-1900)  and  the 
Native  Sons  of  the  Golden 
West. 

He  was  married  June  27,  1906,  in  San  Francisco,  to  Clara  Bell 
Douglas.     They  were  divorced  October  3,  191 6. 


IN    MODOC    COUNTY,    CALIFORNIA 


Arthur  Leslie  Wheeler 

Professor  and  head  of  the  Latin  Department,  Bryn  Mawr  College,  Bryn 
Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Residence,  221  Roberts  Road,  Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Wheeler  is  a  son  of  William  Ruthven  and  Emily  Elizabeth 
(Crego)  Wheeler,  who  were  married  July  3,  1855,  and  had  seven 
children,  four  of  whom  are  now  living :  William  R.,  Jr. ;  Grace 
(Wheeler)  Sumner;  Lillian  Emily  (Wheeler)  Wyckoff,  and  our 
classmate.  The  Wheeler  family  came  from  Hull,  England,  in 
the  seventeenth  century,  and  is  descended  from  Wheelers  who 
were  first  heard  of  near  Middletown,  Connecticut ;  some  of  them 
removed  later  to  western  New  York,  and  Prosper  Wheeler  to 
Michigan  about  1825  or  1830.  He  settled  finally  at  Adrian, 
Michigan,  and  died  about  1880.  William  Ruthven  Wheeler 
(born   July  4,    1832,   in   Scio,   Michigan;     died   July    13,    1893, 


422 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


at  Twin  Lakes,  Connecticut,  his  summer  home)  resided  in 
Napoleon,  while  a  child,  then  in  Adrian  and  Detroit,  Michi- 
gan, and  finally  settled  in 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  about 
1682.  He  studied  art  in  De- 
troit, and  began  painting  por- 
traits at  the  age  of  sixteen. 
From  the  date  of  his  settle- 
ment in  Hartford  he  was  one 
of  the  foremost  artists  in  Con- 
necticut, and  was  especially 
well-known  for  children's  por- 
traits. Some  of  his  work  is 
in  the  State  Capitol  at  Hart- 
ford, and  a  portrait  of  Oliver 
Ellsworth  is  in  the  Supreme 
Court  at  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mrs.  Wheeler  (born  Decem- 
ber 10,  1837,  in  Dundee, 
Michigan ;  died  March  19, 
19 14,  in  Hartford,  Connect- 
icut) was  of  Scotch  ancestry 
on  the  paternal  side.  Her 
mother,  Hanah  Frost,  was  a 
daughter  of  a  veteran  of  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Arthur  L.  Wheeler  was  born  August  12,  1872,  in  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Hartford  Public  High 
School.  He  received  philosophical  oration  appointments,  took 
two-year  honors  in  classics,  a  Lucius  F.  Robinson  Latin  Prize 
(second),  the  Winthrop  Greek  Prize,  a  Berkeley  Premium  (first 
grade),  was  a  Waterman  Scholar,  Historian  and  Salutatorian,  and 
a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  also 
played  on  the  Senior  Baseball  and  Football  teams. 

For  a  year  following  graduation  Wheeler  was  a  graduate 
student  in  Latin,  and  from  1894  to  1900  was  an  instructor  at 
Yale.  He  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1896,  and  in  June 
was  elected  assistant  professor  and  head  of  the  Latin  Depart- 
ment at  Bryn  Mawr  College,  in  1905  being  advanced  to  a  full 
professorship.  During  the  years  1901-03  he  was  a  member  of 
the  managing  committee,  American  School  of  Classical  Studies 
in  Rome,  Italy. 


ARTHUR   L.    WHEELER 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  423 

He  has  published  in  the  American  Journal  of  Philology,  articles 
entitled  "The  Imperfect  Indicative  in  Early  Latin,"  "Hieremias 
de  Montagnone  and  Catullus" ;  in  Classical  Philology,  three 
articles  on  Roman  elegy  and  its  Greek  sources,  entitled : 
"Propertius  as  Praeceptor  Amoris"  and  "Erotic  Teaching  in 
Roman  Elegy  and  the  Greek  Sources" ;  these  articles  have  been 
favorably  received  by  scholars  in  this  country  and  in  Germany. 
In  June,  191 2,  he  was  appointed  editorial  contributor  to  the 
American  Journal  of  Archaeology,  and  in  December,  1912,  was 
elected  member  of  the  examining  committee  of  the  American 
Philological  Association  and  reelected  for  the  next  four  years. 
In  addition  to  these  articles  he  has  published  reviews  in  Classical 
Philology,  the  Classical  Weekly,  and  reports  in  the  American 
Journal  of  Archaeology ;  delivered  addresses  before  classical  clubs 
at  Yale,  Philadelphia,  and  Baltimore,  and  before  classical  associa- 
tions of  the  middle  states ;  has  contributed  various  articles  to 
Forest  and  Stream  on  camping,  canoeing,  etc.  His  recent 
scientific  work  consists  of:  Satura  as  a  Generic  Term  (Classical 
Philology,  VII,  191 2,  457-477),  which  was  mentioned  with 
approval  by  F.  Leo,  the  greatest  authority  on  Roman  satire; 
Catullus  as  an  Elegist  (American  Journal  of  Philology,  XXXVI, 
I9I5»  I55_I84),  and  The  Plot  of  the  Epidicus  of  Plautus 
(American  Journal  of  Philology,  XXXVIII,  191 7,  237-264). 

He  was  president  of  the  Philadelphia  Classical  Club,  1902-03, 
and  a  member  of  St.  David's  Golf  Club  (Handicap  Committee). 

He  is  a  Republican  "when  it  is  not  a  question  of  mere  machine 
politics  or  local  issues." 

He  was  married  June  20,  1894,  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  to 
May  Louise,  daughter  of  Horace  Waters,  a  wholesale  milliner  in 
St.  Louis  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  Belle  E.  (Church)  Waters, 
a  descendant  of  one  of  the  oldest  of  Connecticut  families,  and 
connected  with  the  Wadsworths  of  Charter  Oak  fame.  Mrs. 
Wheeler  died  May  13,  1915.  They  had  one  daughter:  Ruth 
Wadsworth,  born  April  21,  1897. 

Wheeler  writes : 

"I  see  that  you  want  material  for  our  obituaries !  Well,  here 
goes.  There  are  few  things  in  which  I  am  more  interested  and 
none  of  which  I  am  prouder  than  the  achievements  of  the  Brother  j 
hood  of  '93,  and  I  believe  that  many  of  them  take  a  friendly  inter- 
est in  me  as  a  member  of  that  Brotherhood.  Therefore  I 
do    not    believe    it    right    for    me    to    hold    back    the    kind    of 


424  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

revelation    which    I    should    like   to   have    from    them.     Manns 
manum  lavat. 

"I  went  in  for  classics  partly  because  I  was  fond  of  literary 
and  linguistic  study,  partly  because  I  was  poor  and  the  way  opened 
easily  before  me  of  making  an  immediate  living  by  teaching, 
whereas  the  law,  which  I  had  some  idea  of  following,  seemed  to 
offer  at  best  a  somewhat  distant  fruition  and  I  had  to  pay  my  way 
as  I  went.  I  was  fully  aware  that  teaching,  even  college  teaching, 
never  would  bring  me  any  considerable  monetary  reward.  But 
there  were  other  things :  the  sense  of  doing  congenial  work, 
having  some  leisure  for  reading,  travel,  and  the  enjoyment  of  the 
things  which  I  prized  most,  and  the  chance  to  influence  (for  good, 
as  I  hoped)  young  minds.  Money  was  an  entirely  secondary  con- 
sideration, but  I  may  here  add  my  testimony  to  that  which  has  so 
often  been  given  by  American  teachers,  that  it  is  a  shame  and  a 
danger  to  our  civilization  that  good  teachers  are  paid  relatively 
such  small  salaries.  I  don't  pity  the  teachers — they  did  not  have 
to  go  into  this  profession — but  the  profession  is  from  top  to  bot- 
tom so  important  for  our  life  that  the  greatest  care  should  be  taken 
to  attract  into  it  the  best  material.  As  things  are  now  one  has  to 
renounce  at  the  outset  even  a  living  wage,  and  naturally  almost 
all  those  who  are  excellently  adapted  to  it  are  frightened  off. 

"But  I  wanted  to  be  a  college  and  university  professor  and  so  I 
stayed  on  at  Yale  and  took  the  higher  degree  of  Ph.D.  My  ambi- 
tion was  and  is  to  be  known  both  as  a  good  teacher  and  a  good 
scholar.  My  chief  ambition  in  a  professional  way  has  always 
been  to  be  a  professor  at  Yale.  At  one  time  this  seemed  a  fairly 
reasonable  hope ;  at  present  it  looks  far  away.  But  I  am  not  dis- 
contented. I  am  doing  a  good  work  where  I  am,  and  although 
I  feel  that  I  could  serve  the  old  college  well,  it  is  not  for  me  to  say 
that  I  shall  have  the  chance. 

"As  an  investigator  I  want  my  name  to  stand  for  careful,  sound, 
sensible  work,  and  I  have  never  published  anything  in  the  nature 
of  investigation  which  has  not  been  carefully  done.  I  hope  before 
my  workings  days  are  over  to  be  able  to  attach  my  name  to  larger 
pieces  of  work  than  I  have  yet  turned  out,  but  at  present  the  war 
makes  all  such  work  as  mine  useless  for  the  time  being  and  I  often 
wish  that  I  might  temporarily  be  a  technical  expert  in  submarines 
or  some  other  art  which  might  help  us  to  win  the  war. 

"Temporarily !  Yes,  for  the  very  object  of  this  war,  one  of  the 
hopes  of  humanity,  is  to  ensure  so  far  as  possible  a  world  of 


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peace,  and  in  peace,  which  we  all  hope  to  make  the  normal  state 
of  mankind,  literature  is  more  important  than  the  practical  arts  in 
every  way  that  concerns  the  higher  moral  and  intellectual  life. 
This  is  my  faith.  For  this  in  large  part  I  believe  that  we  are 
fighting — the  chance  of  free  development  towards  the  best  that 
man  is  capable  of,  and  if  art  and  literature  are  not  parts  of  this 
'best/  then  I  do  not  know  the  meaning  of  civilization.  And  in 
this  ideal  the  classics  have  a  valuable  place,  both  intrinsically  and 
historically,  for  all  who  wish  really  to  grasp  the  essentials  of 
literature. 

"So  much  for  my  main  life  work.  It  is  not  great,  but  I  have 
been  happy  in  it  and  I  would  not  change  this  part  of  my  life,  if  I 
could  start  once  again  from  the  hurly-burly  of  Freshman  year. 

"With  my  recreations  and  my  hobbies  you,  old  friend,  are 
pretty  well  acquainted.  One  of  my  faults  has  been  that  I  have 
been  interested  in  too  many  things  and  there  are  many  more  in 
which  I  could  easily  get  interested.  But  nature — the  woods,  the 
mountains,  the  streams,  and  everything  connected  with  them — 
has  always  been  my  chief  and  almost  passionate  interest.  I  have 
loved  tennis,  baseball,  football,  golf,  and  many  other  sports,  but 
I  have  got  more  real  down-deep-in-the-heart  joy  from  the  wilder- 
ness. If  I  were  not  convinced  that  man  owes  a  duty  to  man,  I 
would  gladly  spend  nearly  all  my  time  in  the  woods  of  different 
parts  of  the  world.  There  is  something  aboriginal  about  me  that 
craves  close  contact  with  nature,  and  a  little  trip  into  the  woods 
cheers  me  for  months.  Just  to  be  in  the  woods,  near  a  wild 
stream,  is  pure  joy  for  me. 

"But  one  cannot  make  a  recreation  out  of  life  nor  have  I  wished 
to  do  so.  I  have  found  joy  in  nearly  every  part  of  life,  both  work 
and  play. 

"I  will  close  with  a  statement  of  some  of  the  principles  by 
which  I  have  tried  to  guide  my  life.  I  have  tried  to  be  just  in  all 
my  dealings,  to  be  honest  with  myself  and  with  others,  to  try  to 
see  the  other  fellow's  point  of  view  and  to  make  allowances  for  it, 
i.  e.,  to  rid  myself  of  prejudice  and  try  to  take  a  broad  view  of 
problems ;  to  adhere  rigidly  to  the  truth  even  when  the  truth  was 
certain  to  give  offense  if  it  had  to  be  spoken,  to  pursue  a  frank, 
straightforward  course  and  let  my  opponents  know  exactly  where 
I  stood.  I  may  be  too  easy  going,  too  inclined  at  times  to  procras- 
tinate, but  I  have  never  dodged  a  real  issue  and  I  have  tried  to 
deal  with  such  issues  without  fear  or  favor.     In  this  connection  I 


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wish  to  say  that  among  the  most  cherished  things  of  my  life  are 
the  friendships  that  have  been  vouchsafed  me ;  I  have  many 
friends  on  whom  I  feel  that  I  can  absolutely  rely  and  many  of 
them  are  of  the  Brotherhood  of  '93.  Write  me  down  as  one  who 
has  tried  to  live  up  to  his  instincts  of  justice,  truth,  and  sincerity." 


WEBSTER    WHEELOCK 


Webster  Wheelock 

Special  agent,  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company, 
803  Pioneer  Building,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota 

Residence,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota 

Wheelock  is  the  only  son  of  Joseph  Albert  and  Kate  (French) 
Wheelock,  who  were  married  May  14,  i860,  and  had  also  two 
daughters :  Katrine  Wheelock,  B.D.  Hartford  Theological  Semi- 
nary 1904  (professor  of  sacred  history  at  Wellesley  College, 
died  June  2,  1917),  and  Ellen  W'heelock.  Joseph  Wheelock 
(born  February  8,  1831,  in  Bridgetown,  Nova  Scotia,  and  died 
May  9,  1906,  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota)  was  descended  from  Eng- 
lish people  who  came  to  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  in  1637,  Ralph 
Wheelock  being  the  first  schoolmaster  in  the  first  free  school  in 


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America.  He  was  the  founder  of  the  St.  Paul  Press  and  editor 
until  1875,  then  editor-in-chief  and  principal  owner  of  the  St. 
Paul  Pioneer  Press  until  1906.  From  1893  to  1906  he  served  as 
president  of  the  Park  Board,  being  the  father  of  the  present  St. 
Paul  Park  and  Parkway  system.  Mrs.  Wheelock  (born  April 
7,  1836,  in  Concord,  New  Hampshire)  is  a  descendant  of  William 
French,  who  came  from  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  to  London- 
derry, New  Hampshire,  in  1636. 

Webster  Wheelock  was  born  December  7,  1870,  in  St.  Paul, 
Minnesota,  and  was  prepared  at  the  St.  Paul  High  School  and  at 
St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  New  Hampshire.  He  received  ora- 
tion appointments,  was  chairman  of  the  C  our  ant  Board,  and  a 


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member  of  the  Republican  Club,  University  Club,  Alpha  Delta 
Phi,  and  Wolf's  Head. 

He  has  lived  in  St.  Paul  continuously  since  graduation  and 
until  1909  was  connected  with  the  Pioneer  Press,  from  1897  to 
1906  as  associate  editor  and  from  1906  to  1909  as  editor-in-chief. 
After  selling  his  interest  in  the  Pioneer  Press  in  1909  he  entered 
the  real  estate  and  insurance  business  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Wheelock  &  Gilfillan,  and  from  1910  to  1913  was  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Lynch  &  Wheelock,  farm  mortgages.  In  the  latter 
year  this  firm  turned  over  its  business  to  the  Farm  Mortgage 
Bond  Company,  of  which  Wheelock  was  assistant  secretary  and 
a  director.  In  191 5  he  was  first  associated  with  the  Capital 
Trust  Company,  but  on  May  1  of  that  year  he  accepted  his  present 
position  as  special  agent  in  St.  Paul  of  the  Massachusetts  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company.  He  is  also  secretary  of  the  Minnesota 
Co-operative  Plantation  Company. 

He  is  a  Republican  and  served  as  secretary  to  the  Mayor  in 
1896-97.  From  December,  191 1  to  1915  he  was  a  member  of 
the  St.  Paul  Charter  Commission.  Since  191 3  he  has  been  a 
member   of    the   executive   committee   of    the    Ramsey    County 


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Council  of  Boy  Scouts  of  America,  from  1904  to  1910  served  on 
the  executive  committee  of  the  Ramsey  County  Good  Roads 
Association,  and  has  been  on  various  other  civic  committees. 
He  is  a  corporal  in  Company  D,  First  Battalion,  Minnesota 
Home  Guard. 

He  belongs  to  the  Junior  Pioneers,  a  "local  fraternity  of  native 
sons  and  ancient  residents,"  and  to  the  St.  Paul  Association  of 
Commerce.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

He  was  married  October  13,  1900,  in  St.  Paul,  to  Martha 
McMasters,  daughter  of  James  Gilfillan,  a  chief  justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Minnesota,  and  Martha  (McMasters)  Gil- 
fillan. They  have  two  sons,  both  born  in  St.  Paul :  Webster,  Jr., 
born  November  2,  1902,  and  Joseph  Albert,  born  April  3,  1905. 
The  older  son  is  in  the  St.  Paul  High  School  and  both  are 
"headed  for  Yale." 

Wheelock  writes :  "I  have  pursued  persistently  a  planless  path 
accomplishing  anything  anywhere  and  anyhow  as  occasion  arose, 
but  recreating  regularly  and  repeatedly  whenever  my  intense 
interest  in  insuring  illiterati  and  illuminati  indiscriminately  was 
not  incompatible  therewith. 

"To  tell  of  my  travels  truthfully  would  titillate  nobody  and  a 
facility  for  fiction  is  far  from  me  (except  when  tempted). 

"As  to  hobbies  I  have  had  a  hundred.     How  hawful  hall  this !" 


Albert  Beebe  White 

Professor  of   history,  University  of   Minnesota,   Minneapolis,   Minnesota 

Residence,  325    Sixth  Avenue,   S.   E.,   Minneapolis,   Minnesota 

White's  parents,  Edmund  and  Sarah  (Beebe)  White,  were 
married  May  17,  1870.  His  father,  born  August  21,  1823,  in 
East  Randolph  (now  Holbrook),  Massachusetts,  and  died  Janu- 
ary 4,  1905,  in  Minneapolis,  was  descended  from  Thomas  White, 
who  was  born  in  England  in  1599  and  settled  in  Weymouth, 
Massachusetts,  about  1630.  Mr.  White  lived  in  Holbrook  until 
1899  and  bad  an  extensive  business  as  a  manufacturer  of  boots 
and  shoes.  He  served  in  the  Massachusetts  General  Court  for 
the  session  of  1883.  By  former  marriages  he  had  two  sons: 
Emmons  White  and  Edmund  Burr  White,  B.A.  Yale  1889  (died 
February  18,  1913,  in  Chicago,  Illinois).  Our  classmate's 
mother   (born  July  2,  1831,  in  South  Wilbraham   (now  Hamp- 


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den),  Massachusetts,  and  died  April  4,  1895,  m  Holbrook)  grad- 
uated from  Mount  Holyoke  Seminary  (now  College)  in  1856, 
and  taught  school  before  her  marriage.  She  was  a  descendant 
of    Samuel    Beebe,    born    in    Broughton     (Northamptonshire), 


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ALBERT   B.    WHITE 


England,  in  1633,  who  settled  in  New  London,  Connecticut,  in 
1650.  Mrs.  White's  mother  was  Eunice  McCray,  who  repre- 
sents a  Scotch  strain  through  her  father. 

Albert  B.  White  was  born  September  11,  1871,  in  East  Ran- 
dolph, and  was  prepared  at  the  Boston  Latin  School,  the  oldest 
institution  of  learning  in  the  United  States.  He  received  an 
oration  Junior  and  a  high  oration  Senior  appointment  in  college 
and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

For  two  years  he  taught  at  Siglar's  School,  Newburgh,  New 
York,  and  then  returned  to  Yale  for  graduate  work.  In  1898  he 
received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  and  the  following  year  taught  in  the 
New  Haven  High  School  and  was  a  lecturer  at  Yale.  In 
September,  1899,  he  accepted  an  appointment  as  instructor  in 
mediaeval  and  English  constitutional  history  at  the  University  of 
Minnesota,  was  promoted  to  assistant  professor  in  1900  and  to 
professor  in  1907. 


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He  has  written  many  reviews  for  the  American  Historical 
Review  and  other  historical  publications,  and  is  the  author  of 
"The  Making  of  the  English  Constitution,  449-1485,"  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons,  1908,  pp.  xxvii,  410;  "Scholarship,"  an  address, 
privately  printed,  Minneapolis,  1908;  The  first  concentration  of 
juries:  the  writ  of  July  21,  1213.  American  Historical  Review, 
October,  191 1,  xvii,  12-16;  Early  uses  of  "parliamentum." 
Modern  Language  Review,  January,  1914,  ix,  92,  93;  Some 
early  instances  of  concentration  of  representatives  in  England. 
American  Historical  Review,  July,  1914,  xix,  735-750;  the  name 
Magna  Carta.  English  Historical  Review,  July,  191 5,  xxx,  472- 
475;  (with  Wallace  Notestein)  "Source  Problems  in  English 
History."  Harper  &  Brothers,  1915,  pp.  422;  the  Oxford 
meeting  of  1213.  American  Historical  Review,  January,  1917, 
xxii,  325-329;  Note  on  the  name  Magna  Carta.  English  His- 
torical Review,  October,  191 7,  xxxii,  554-555. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Minne- 
apolis. 

He  was  married  October  1,  1893,  in  Holbrook,  Massachusetts, 
to  Mabel  White,  daughter  of  Joseph  Jones,  an  organist  and  music 
teacher,  and  Ruth  (White)  Jones.  They  have  one  son,  Richard 
Beebe,  born  January  7,  1901,  in  Minneapolis. 

White  writes :  "The  list  of  writings  indicates  the  field  of 
research  I  have  got  started  in.  My  work  is  about  equally  divided 
between  teaching  and  research,  with  the  latter  perhaps  weighing 
a  bit  heavier  in  the  scale  of  my  interest.  Some  day  I  may  put 
these  and  a  lot  of  other  fragments  (still  to  come  out)  together 
into  some  kind  of  ordered  account  of  the  beginnings  of  the 
English  House  of  Commons,  about  which  apparently  trite  subject 
much  less  is  known  than  is  commonly  supposed.  I  find  it  a  very 
pleasant  thing  to  search  for  the  very  first  traces  of  such  things 
as  the  representative  idea  in  government  or  popular  election,  and 
find  how  and  why  they  started  and  grew ;  or  to  examine  and  list 
the  early  political  activities  of  the  English  middle  class.  And 
though  in  all  this  I  am  back  in  the  Middle  Ages  (Twelfth  and 
Thirteenth  century  England  is  my  field),  so  far  apparently  from 
the  issues  of  the  Great  War,  yet  I  am  on  the  trail  of  that 
democracy — spirit  and  method — that  we  are  all  fighting  for. 

"Nineteen  years  in  Minnesota  make  it  seem  like  home  to  us, 
the  University  has  been  the  pleasantest  of  places  in  which  to 
work,  and  anything  that  I  have  done  has  more  than  had  its 
reward.     But  we  were  born  and  bred  New  Englanders  and  each 


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summer  go  back  for  a  few  weeks  to  our  house  (acquired  five 
years  ago)  in  the  Berkshires — Rowe,  Franklin  County,  Massa- 
chusetts. Thus  we  alternate  between  two  very  opposite  sur- 
roundings and  ways  of  living,  and  wonder  which  we  love  the 
more." 


*John  Harvey  Wigginton 

Died  May  21,  1909 

Wigginton  was  the  son  of  J.  G.  Wigginton,  a  mechanic,  and  was 
born  December  8,  1864,  near  Bladensburg,  Maryland.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Worcester  Academy,  Worcester,  Massachu- 
setts. 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  Yale  Law  School,  and 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  June,  1895.  He  then  practiced 
law  in  Bladensburg,  after  his 
admission  to  the  Maryland 
Bar.  In  1897  he  went  to 
Chicago,  Illinois,  where  he 
practiced  for  a  year.  He  was 
called  to  teach  Greek  and 
Latin  at  Selma  University,  an 
institution  devoted  to  the  edu- 
cation of  his  race,  at  Selma, 
Alabama.  In  May,  1905,  he 
was  elected  dean  of  the  insti- 
tution, and  continued  in  that 
capacity  until  the  early  part  of 
1909,  when  failing  health 
compelled  him  to  abandon  his 
work.  In  1909  he  bought  a 
house  in  Brentwood,  Mary- 
land, thus  realizing  a  long 
cherished  hope  of  establishing 
a  home  for  his  mother  to 
whom  he  was  devoted.  He 
died  at  this  home,  May  21, 
1909,  of  nervous  prostration,  brought  on  by  overwork. 

He  was  married  September  26,  1906,  to  Mahalath  Frances, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Jackson  of  Washington,  D.  C.  Their  only 
child,  a  son,  died  in  infancy. 


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JOHN    H.    WIGGINTON 


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CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Walter  Dwight  Wilcox 

War  Trade  Board,  Havana,  Cuba 
1526  New  Hampshire  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Wilcox  is  the  only*  son  of  Sextus  Newell  and  Sarah  (Adams) 
Wilcox,  who  had  one  other  child,  a  daughter,  Anne  Aline  (Wil- 
cox) Halstead.  Sextus  N.  Wilcox  was  born  in  1824  in  Stock- 
bridge,  Massachusetts.    His  son  says  of  him :   "My  father's  death 


WALTER   D.    WILCOX 


was  the  result  of  an  accident  in  Lake  Superior,  in  which  his  canoe 
was  upset  and  he  and  a  friend  were  drowned  and  the  Indian 
Guide  was  saved.  As  this  event  occurred  when  I  was  a  boy 
about  ten  years  of  age  there  are  naturally  many  facts  of  my 
father's  life  that  I  am  not  so  fully  informed  about  as  would 
otherwise  have  been  the  case.  In  his  youth  he  went  to  Chicago, 
then  a  mere  village,  and  made  a  considerable  fortune  in  lumber, 
his  mills  being  located  in  Michigan.  Practically  ruined  in  the 
great  Chicago  fire,  he  started  to  build  up  his  business  and  was 
on  the  road  to  success  when  his  life  was  abruptly  terminated 


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while  on  a  short  vacation  trip."  He  was  a  park  commissioner 
in  Chicago  for  many  years.  Mrs.  Wilcox  (born  in  Quincy, 
Massachusetts;  died  December  27,  1907,  in  Washington,  D.  C.) 
was  a  daughter  of  Henry  Adams,  eighth  generation  from  Henry 
Adams  of  Braintree,  Massachusetts,  who  came  to  America  in 
1640  and  who  was  the  original  ancestor  of  the  Adams  family  in 
the  country.  John  and  John  Quincy  Adams  belonged  to  a  branch 
of  this  family.  The  family  traces  back  to  Lord  John  Apadam 
who  died  in  1310,  in  Tidenham,  Wales.  She  had  an  excellent 
high  school  education  and  was  proficient  in  music  and  painting. 

Walter  D.  Wilcox  was  born  September  24,  1869,  in  Chicago, 
Illinois.  In  college  he  received  Junior  and  Senior  colloquies,  was 
a  member  of  the  Andover  Club  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 

He  spent  the  early  years  after  graduation  studying  science  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  making  two  trips  in  1894  and  '95  to  the 
Canadian  Rocky  Mountains,  and  in  1897  spending  a  summer  in 
the  Hawaiian  Islands  taking  photographs  and  writing  for  maga- 
zines. A  trip  around  the  world  occupied  the  year  1902-03,  and 
since  1905  he  has  been  engaged  in  developing  timber  lands  near 
Cienfuegos,  Cuba,  but  living  most  of  the  time  since  1909  in 
Washington,  D.  C.  On  February  10,  1918,  he  was  appointed  to 
the  staff  of  General  H.  H.  Morgan,  at  Havana,  representing  the 
War  Trade,  Fuel  and  Shipping  Boards. 

He  has  written:  "Camping  in  the  Canadian  Rockies"  (G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons,  New  York)  ;  "The  Source  of  Saskatchewan" 
(Geographical  Journal)  ;  "A  Type  of  Lake  Formation  in  the 
Canadian  Rocky  Mountains"  (Journal  of  Geology)  ;  "Pic- 
turesque Landscapes  in  the  Canadian  Rocky  Mountains"  (G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons)  ;  "A  Guide  to  the  Lake  Louise  Region,"  with 
map  and  eighteen  illustrations. 

He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society 
in  1899,  and  in  1909  an  honorary  member  of  the  Alpine  Club  of 
Canada.  He  served,  in  1914,  as  second  vice-president  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  Washington,  D.  C. 

He  was  married  November  27,  1901,  to  Annie  White  Lawson, 
daughter  of  Franklin  Lley  and  Anna  (Riland)  Lawson.  They 
have  had  one  son :  Walter  Dwight,  Jr.,  born  November  14,  1909, 
and  died  July  2y,  1910. 


434 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Edward  Mason  Williams 

Director,  The   Sherwin-Williams   Company,  manufacturers  of  paints, 
varnishes,  dyes,  etc.,  601  Canal  Road,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Residence,  10916  Magnolia  Drive,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Williams  is  a  son  of  Edward  P.  and  Mary  Louise  (Mason) 
Williams,  who  were  married  in  1869  at  Utica,  New  York,  and 
had  three  other  children:  Ray  (married  Abram  Garfield,  Wil- 
liams '93)  ;    Reba  (married  Arthur  D.  Baldwin,  Yale  '98)  ;   and 


EDWARD    M.    WILLIAMS 


Lewis  Mason  Williams,  Yale  '98,  now  with  the  Red  Cross  in 
France.  Edward  P.  Williams  (born  May  10,  1843,  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  died  May  3,  1903,  in  the  same  city)  was  of  Welch  ancestry, 
his  family  coming  to  this  country  some  time  prior  to  1700.  He 
received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  M.A.  from  Western  Reserve 
University,  where  he  roomed  with  George  Trumbull  Ladd.  Mrs. 
Williams  (born  December  3,  1845,  in  Utica,  New  York)  is  a 
descendant  of  Launcelot  Granger,  who  was  first  known  in 
Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  in  1648,  and  died  in  Suffield,  Connecticut, 
in  1707.  Her  mother,  Sarah  Granger  (died  in  1872),  married 
Squire  Mason  and  lived  at  New  Hartford,  near  Utica,  New  York. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  435 

Edward  M.  Williams  was  born  November  9,  1871,  in  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  and  was  prepared  in  the  Cleveland  public  schools. 
He  received  a  colloquy  appointment,  sang  in  the  College  Choir 
and  Second  Glee  Club,  and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club 
and  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 

With  the  exception  of  two  years  (1895-97)  which  he  spent 
in  Montreal,  Canada,  he  has  been  with  the  Sherwin-Williams 
Paint  Company,  of  Cleveland,  since  1893. 

He  is  president  of  the  Children's  Fresh  Air  Camp ;  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Morris  Plan  Bank  of  Cleveland;  director  of  the 
Ozark  Mining  &  Smelting  Company,  the  Cleveland  Box  Com- 
pany, Superior  Savings  &  Trust  Company,  and  various  other 
companies.  For  several  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  American  Street  Railway  Manufacturers  Asso- 
ciation. In  1913-14  he  was  a  director  in  the  Cleveland  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  and  chosen  in  February,  1913,  a  member  of  a  com- 
mittee of  fifteen  to  prepare  a  new  charter  for  the  city.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers,  and  for  two  years  served  as  vice-president 
of  the  Federation  of  Charities  and  Philanthropy,  a  member  of 
the  American  Society  for  Prevention  of  Infant  Mortality,  and  the 
National  Child  Labor  Society,  and  vice-president  of  the  commit- 
tee on  Children  of  the  National  Conference  of  Charities  and 
Correction;  in  1914  was  a  member  and  vice-president  of  the 
Board  of  Education  of  Cleveland,  and  was  reelected  for  a  four- 
year  term  in  November,  191 7. 

An  address,  "A  Chamber  of  Commerce  Militant,"  is  published 
in  the  1913  Proceedings  of  the  National  Conference  of  Charities 
and  Correction. 

He  is  a  deacon  of  the  Old  Stone  Church  and  a  trustee  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Society. 

His  clubs  are:  the  Yale  and  University  of  New  York,  the 
Union,  Tavern,  University,  Cleveland  Country,  Mayfield  Country, 
and  the  Chagrin  Valley  Hunt,  all  of  Cleveland. 

He  was  married  October  11,  1899,  m  Cleveland,  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  Samuel  A.  Raymond  (Yale  '70),  a  sister  of  Henry  A. 
(Yale  '05),  Samuel  E.  (Yale  '13),  and  J.  S.  Raymond  (Yale 
'16).  They  have  five  children:  Hilda,  born  July  24,  1900 
(Hatha way-Brown  School)  ;  Madeline,  born  December  26,  1902 
(attending  same  school)  ;  Edward  Porter,  born  January  2,  1907 
(University  School)  ;  Mary  Raymond,  born  April  30,  1909 
(Hathaway-Brown  School),  and  Raymond,  born  May  8,  1916. 


436 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


*Morris  Woodruff 

Died  December  31,  1897 

Woodruff  was  the  son  of  Morris  and  Juliette  (Lane)  Woodruff, 
who  were  married  in  October,  1863,  and  had  three  other  children, 
of  whom  one  son,  George  William  Lane  Woodruff,  graduated 
from  Sheff  in  1895.     Morris  Woodruff,  senior,  was  born  July  30, 

1838,  in  Newark,  New  Jersey. 
His  parents  were  the  Hon. 
Lewis  Bartholomew  Wood- 
ruff, B.A.  Yale  1830,  the  first 
United  States  Circuit  Judge 
of  the  Second  Circuit,  and 
Harriette  Burnet  (Horn- 
blower)  Woodruff,  the  daugh- 
ter of  Chief  Justice  Joseph  C. 
Hornblower  of  New  Jersey. 
He  entered  the  Class  of  i860 
at  Yale  as  a  Freshman,  but 
left  in  1858  to  engage  in  the 
mercantile  business  in  New 
York  City.  In  1874,  how- 
ever, the  degrees  of  B.A.  and 
M.A.  were  conferred  upon 
him  and  his  name  was  en- 
rolled with  his  Class.  He 
was  head  of  the  firm  of 
George  W.  Lane  and  Conn 
pany,  importers  of  teas,  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  March  3,  1894,  at  his  home  in 
New  York  City.  Juliette  (Lane)  Woodruff,  the  eldest  daughter 
of  George  W.  Lane,  president  of  the  New  York  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  was  born  in  1841  in  New  York  City. 

Woodruff  was  born  May  23,  1870,  in  New  York  City,  and  pre- 
pared for  Yale  at  Morse's  School.  In  college  he  was  a  member 
of  the  University  Club  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

On  graduation  he  became  connected  with  his  father  in  George 
W.  Lane  and  Company,  and  was  junior  member  of  the  firm  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  very  suddenly  from  heart 
failure,  December  31,  1897. 
He  was  unmarried. 


MORRIS    WOODRUFF 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


437 


Alfred  Charles  Woolner 

Secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Colonial  Distributing  Company,  15  Water 
Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  Woodmere,  New  York 

Woolner's  parents,  Adolph  and  Antonia  (Black)  Woolner, 
were  married  in  1865,  an(l  naci  three  other  children:  Samuel; 
William  B. ;  and  Henrietta  (W'oolner)  Baar.  Adolph  Woolner 
(born  January  29,  1841,  in  Szenicze,  Hungary;  died  May  9,  1891, 
in  Peoria,  Illinois)  was  the  first  of  his  family  to  emigrate  to  this 
country,  coming  in  1863.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Vienna  Uni- 
versity, Austria.  He  lived  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  Peoria, 
Illinois,  and  was  in  the  distilling  business,  being  vice-president 
of  the  Distilling  &  Cattle  Feeding  Company  from  1887  to  1891. 
His  wife  (born  in  Pelejte,  Hungary,  April  13,  1843;    died  July 


ALFRED    C.    WOOLNER 


30,  1914,  in  the  Catskill  Mountains,  New  York)  was  also  the  first 
of  her  family  to  come  to  America,  settling  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
in  1859. 

Alfred  C.  Woolner  was  born  March  14,  1872,  in  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Peoria  High  School  (Illinois). 


438  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

He  received  oration  appointments  Junior  and  Senior  years,  and 
was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  attended  the  Yale  Law  School,  was  an  editor  on  the  Yale 
Law  Journal,  and  graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1895. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar,  in  February,  1896,  and 
practiced  law  for  the  following  eight  years  in  New  York  City, 
being  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Clark  &  Woolner  from  January  1, 
1898,  to  1904.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  vice-president  of  the 
Woolner  Distilling  Company,  partner  in  Woolner  &  Company, 
and  partner  in  S.  &  A.  Woolner  Company,  of  Peoria,  Illinois,  and 
treasurer  of  the  Colonial  Distributing  Company,  New  York  City. 

He  is  a  Democrat.  He  belongs  to  the  Temple  Emanuel 
(Hebrew),  New  York  City. 

He  was  married  November  28,  1906,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Rose  S.,  daughter  of  Morris  H.  Woolner,  a  distiller,  and  Theresa 
(Warshing)  Woolner.  They  have  three  children,  all  born  in 
New  York  City:  Maurice  A.,  born  May  10,  1908;  Theresa 
Antonia,  born  March  24,  1910,  and  Louise  Rose,  born  December 
22,  1912. 

Wilbur  Seaman  Wright 

Senior  partner  of  Wright  &  Hirschberg,  lawyers,  96  Greenwich  Avenue, 
Greenwich,  Connecticut 

Residence,  32  West  Elm  Street,  Greenwich,  Connecticut 

Wright  is  a  son  of  Benjamin  Wright  and  Abigail  (Mead) 
Wright,  who  were  married  June  26,  i860,  and  had  three  other 
children:  Benjamin  M.  Wright  (Bangor  Theological  Seminary 
1886;  B.D.  Yale  1897;  M.A.  1903;  died  November  17,  1907); 
Clara ;  and  Abby  L.  Wright.  The  Wright  family  emigrated  from 
England  and  settled  in  this  country  in  Massachusetts  in  1635. 
Benjamin  Wright  (born  December  14,  1834,  in  Yorktown,  West- 
chester County,  New  York;  died  May  16,  1913,  in  Greenwich, 
Connecticut)  was  the  son  of  Joel  and  Ann  (Banks)  Wright.  He 
attended  Bedford  Academy.  At  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War 
he  enlisted  in  the  10th  Connecticut  Volunteers,  was  mustered  in  as 
First  Sergeant,  promoted  to  Second  Lieutenant  in  September, 
1862,  and  to  First  Lieutenant  in  January,  1863,  and  honorably 
discharged  in  October,  1864.  He  was  a  merchant  at  Greenwich 
until  about  1880;  he  served  three  terms  as  representative  from 
Greenwich  in  the  General  Assembly,  State  of  Connecticut,  1876- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


439 


1879.  From  1880  to  191 2  he  was  a  United  States  Custom  House 
Official  in  New  York  City.  Mrs.  Wright  (born  September 
29,  1839;  died  October  15,  1897,  in  Greenwich,  Connecticut)  was 
a  daughter  of  Colonel  Thomas  A.  Mead  and  Hannah  (Seaman) 
Mead.     Her  father's  family  was  English  and  settled  in  Massa- 


WILBUR   S.    WRIGHT 


chusetts  in  1635.  Her  mother's  family  was  English  with  some 
French  and  Dutch  ancestry,  settling  in  the  United  States  in  the 
seventeenth  century.  The  latest  of  her  ancestors  who  arrived 
was  Hendrick  Bush,  who  settled  in  New  Amsterdam  in  1661. 
She  attended  the  Greenwich  Academy.  Rev.  Abraham  Mead, 
Rev.  Solomon  Mead,  Henry  Bush,  Thomas  Mead,  Whitman 
Mead,  Yale  relatives,  were  graduated  in  1739,  1742,  1756,  1773, 
and  1814,  respectively. 

Wilbur  S.  Wright  was  born  in  Greenwich,  Connecticut, 
November  16,  1871,  and  was  prepared  at  Greenwich  Academy. 
He  received  Junior,  and  Senior  orations  and  honors  in  political 
science. 

He  studied  in  the  New  York  Law  School,  1893-94;  in  Green- 
wich, 1894-97;   and  has  been  associated  with  Judge  R.  J.  Walsh 


440  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

since  1897.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  in  1899 
and  became  junior  partner  in  the  law  firm,  Walsh  &  Wright. 
Since  1908  he  has  served  on  various  town  committees,  is  chairman 
of  a  committee  for  bonding  the  town  for  $250,000,  for  school 
improvements,  and  the  committee  for  the  issuance  of  bonds  for 
$600,000,  for  permanent  road  construction,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  committee  on  town  sanitation.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
was  assistant  prosecuting  attorney,  and  is  now  trustee  of  Green- 
wich Savings  Bank,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  Belle  Haven  Land 
Company,  and  a  director  of  The  Boswell  Drug  Company.  He 
served  as  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Estimate  and  Taxation  of  the 
Town  of  Greenwich  from  1909  to  19 17,  and  was  appointed  town 
counsel  in  February,  1918. 

He  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Second  Congrega- 
tional Church,  was  a  member  of  its  Business  Committee  for  six 
years,  clerk  of  the  Church,  chairman  of  the  committee  for  the 
restoration  of  the  Church  spire,  involving  an  outlay  of  $60,000, 
and  chairman  of  the  pastoral  committee  in  19 17. 

He  is  a  director  of  the  United  Workers,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and 
Greenwich  Library,  a  member  of  the  Boy  Scouts  of  America 
(Greenwich  Organization),  and  the  Connecticut  State  Council  of 
Defense,  Greenwich  Committee. 

He  belongs  to  the  Sons  of  Veterans,  Greenwich  Field  Club, 
and  the  Volunteer  Hook,  Ladder  and  Hose  Company. 

First  Lieutenant  Donald  K.  Wright,  Ph.B.  191 7,  and  Second 
Lieutenant  Stanley  B.  Wright,  1919,  are  nephews. 

He  has  not  married. 

Just  a  little  grub  worm 
Creeping  up  the  hill, 
When  I  take  a  tumble 
Keep  on  climbing  still ; 

Will  not  reach  the  summit 
But  may  get  part  way. 
When  the  game  is  over 
Hope  my  friends  will  say 

Wright  was  a  true  Yale  man, 
Fought  a  good,  clean  fight ; 
Helped  the  other  fellow, 
Tried  to  do  the  right. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


441 


Frederick  Washburn  Yates 

Lawyer,  34  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  11 12  Watchung  Avenue,  Plainfield,  New  Jersey 

Yates  is  a  son  of  Joseph  W.  and  Susan  Gray  (Jackson)  Yates, 
who  were  married  November  8,  1857,  and  had  four  other  chil- 
dren: Clementine  (Yates)  Holman,  attended  Mt.  Holyoke  Sem- 
inary; Sam  J.  Yates,  B.A.  Princeton  1880  (died  in  San 
Bernardino,  California,  September  27,  1907)  ;  Katharyn  (Yates) 


FREDERICK   W.   YATES 


Borden;  and  Margaret  G.  Yates,  attended  Wellesley  College. 
Joseph  W.  Yates  (born  January  30,  1826,  at  Round  Pond,  Maine; 
died  in  Plainfield,  New  Jersey,  July  29,  1904),  son  of  Catherine 
and  Samuel  Yates,  was  left  an  orphan  at  nine  years  of  age.  He 
followed  the  sea  and  became  master  of  a  ship  at  the  age  of 
eighteen.  He  established  the  firm  of  Yates  &  Porterfield  in  New 
York  City  in  1854,  a  general  shipping  and  commission  business, 
importing  and  exporting  to  the  west  coast  of  Africa.  He 
retired  in  1884.     His  wife,  daughter  of  Samuel  R.  and  Jane  F. 


442  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Jackson,  was  born  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  November  8, 
1831,  and  died  in  Plainfield,  New  Jersey,  February  13,  1913. 

Frederick  W.  Yates  was  born  March  9,  1866,  in  Plainfield,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  was  prepared  for  college  at  Leal's  Preparatory 
School.  He  held  the  lightweight  wrestling  championship  during 
Freshman  and  Sophomore  years,  was  a  Class  Deacon  four  years, 
Class  Orator  Sophomore  year,  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Foot- 
ball Team,  University  Club,  He  Boule,  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  New  York  Law  School,  receiv- 
ing the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1895,  was  admitted  to  the  New  York 
Bar  in  June  of  the  same  year,  and  has  been  practicing  in  New 
York  City  since  that  time.  From  1898  to  1904  he  was  consul  in 
New  York  for  the  Republic  of  Liberia. 

In  politics  he  is  an  Independent  Democrat.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

He  was  married  June  28,  1894,  in  Danielsonville,  Connecticut, 
to  Bertha  Kedzie,  daughter  of  Charles  H.  and  Martha  (Stanley) 
Cornwell.  They  have  one  daughter,  Katharyn,  born  April  2, 
1895,  who  attended  Miss  Hartridge's  School,  Plainfield,  New 
Jersey;  Rye  Seminary,  Rye,  New  York;  Mrs.  Somers'  Mt. 
Vernon  Seminary,  Washington,  D.  C,  finishing  in  191 3.  She 
was  married  to  Russell  P.  Morris,  of  Plainfield,  New  Jersey,  May 
24,  19 1 7.  On  April  1,  19 18,  a  daughter,  Katharyn  Elizabeth, 
was  born  to  them,  incidentally  making  Yates  the  first  grand- 
father in  his  Class. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  443 


NON-GRADUATES 


^Frederick  Keith  Bremner 

Frederick  K.  Bremner  was  born  June  3,  1869,  in  Boxford, 
Massachusetts.  He  left  college  at  the  end  of  Freshman  year. 
No  information,  except  the  fact  that  he  died  several  years  before 
1909,  is  available. 


*Rupert  Doty  Brown 

Died  October  16,  1889 

Rupert  D.  Brown,  the  son  of  Robert  D.  and  Clarissa  Brown, 
was  born  November  25,  1871.  A  month  after  entering  the  Class 
he  died  of  typhoid  fever  in  New  Haven. 


Louis  Hood  Burrell 

Senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of   Burrell  and  James, 
Knowlton  Bank  Building,  Freeport,   Illinois 

Residence,  168  Foley  Street,  Freeport,  Illinois 

Burrell  is  the  son  of  Daniel  W.  and  Adaliza  (Hood)  Burrell, 
who  were  married  August  25,  1869,  and  had  two  other  sons :  Dr. 
Paul  J.  Burrell  and  Kenneth  D.  Burrell.  Daniel  W.  Burrell, 
born  February  4,  1847,  in  Westmoreland  County,  Pennsylvania,  is 
the  son  of  David  Burrell,  who  was  born  near  Stahlstown,  Pennsyl- 
vania, March  11,  1806,  and  died  in  Freeport,  Illinois,  February 
21,  1882,  and  Elizabeth  (Felgar)  Burrell,  born  May  11,  1812. 
near  Stahlstown,  and  died  in  Freeport,  August  26,  1902.  He  is 
a  descendant  of  Thomas  Burrell  and  Rebecca  Sinton,  French 
Huguenots,  on  his  father's  side  of  the  family.  His  maternal 
grandparents  were  Ludwig  Felgar  of  Germany  and  Katherine 
Dunn  of  Scotland.  Daniel  W.  Burrell  moved  to  Freeport, 
Illinois,  about  1848,  where  he  was  a  merchant  and  manufacturer. 
Adaliza  (Hood)  Burrell  was  born  March  17,  1849,  m  Westmore- 


444  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

land  County,  Pennsylvania.  William  Hood,  from  the  north  of 
Ireland,  and  William  Campbell,  from  Scotland,  were  two  of  her 
ancestors  who  settled  in  the  United  States  in  the  pre-Revolu- 
tionary  period.  David  James  Burrell,  B.A.  Yale  1867,  D.D. 
Parsons  College  1876,  LL.D.  Hope  College  1895,  and  Joseph 
Dunn  Burrell,  B.A.  Yale  1881,  M.A.  1893,  D.D.  Park  College 
1906,  are  uncles ;  and  David  DeForest  Burrell,  B.A.  Yale  1898, 
B.D.  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  1901,  and  Norman  Macleod 
Burrell,  B.A.  Yale  1899,  LL.B.  Columbia  1902,  are  cousins  of 
our  classmate. 

Louis  H.  Burrell  was  born  September  10,  1870,  in  Freeport, 
Illinois.  He  prepared  for  Yale  in  Beloit  Academy,  Wisconsin. 
He  was  compelled  to  leave  college  on  account  of  poor  health  in 
the  middle  of  Junior  year. 

From  1892  to  1895  he  was  with  Burrell  Brothers'  Vinegar 
Works,  Freeport,  Illinois.  He  then  studied  law,  was  admitted 
to  the  Illinois  Bar,  November  4,  1897,  and  since  then  has  been 
practicing  in  Freeport. 

In  the  Spanish-American  War  he  was  in  the  commissary 
department  on  the  transport  Manitoba  from  April,  1898,  to 
January,  1899. 

He  is  a  director  of  the  Freeport  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  and 
of  the  Associated  Charities,  Inc.,  and  was  States  Attorney  of 
Stephenson  County,  Illinois,  from  1900  to  1912.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church ;  and  past  commander-in- 
chief,  Freeport  Consistory  S.  P.  R.  S.,  past  sovereign  prince, 
Freeport  Council  P.  of  J.,  and  honorary  member  of  the  Supreme 
Council  S.  G.  I.  G.  thirty-third  degree,  Northern  Masonic  Juris- 
diction U.  S.  A. 

He  is  a  member  of  District  Exemption  Board,  Division  No.  4, 
Northern  District  of  Illinois. 

In  March,  191 8,  he  writes :  "Facing  the  present  world  crisis, 
individual  plans,  aims,  and  accomplishments  are  centered  about 
one  purpose — the  defeat  and  punishment  of  Germany,  and  her 
exclusion — under  probation — from  civilization,  as  a  world  power. 

"The  practical  application  of  the  lessons  of  democracy  versus 
autocracy,  crystallized  by  war  into  thought  and  words,  and  now 
first  comprehended,  will  monopolize  the  attention  and  effort  of 
this  and  future  generations. 

"This  must  be  the  concentrated  thought  and  talk  of  this  nation 
and  each  citizen  thereof,  that  by  correct  action  good  may  come 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  445 

out  of  evil,  and  our  posterity  be  happier  in  a  civilization  purified 
by  fire." 

He  was  married  April  28,  1903,  in  Burlington,  Vermont, 
to  Jessie  Mayer  (Mrs.  D'Armit),  Wellesley  (non-graduate), 
daughter  of  Urias  and  Addie  (Welsh)  Mayer.  They  have  one 
son:  David  Mayer,  born  December  21,  1906,  in  Freeport,  Illinois. 


Jacob  Hagar  Carfrey 

Salesman,  H.  I.  Dallman  Company,  supply  house,  106  Friend  Street, 
Boston,  Massachusetts 

Residence,  Reading,  Massachusetts 

Carfrey  is  the  son  of  Morgan  and  Susan  M.  (Robbins)  Car- 
frey, who  were  married  in  1856,  and  had  three  other  children,  all 
daughters.  Morgan  Carfrey,  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  his  grand- 
father Carfrey  having  been  an  educator  in  Scotland,  died  in  1902. 
Susan  M.  (Robbins)  Carfrey  had  several  cousins,  graduates  of 
Princeton,  who  were  educators. 

Jacob  H.  Carfrey  was  born  February  15,  1859,  in  Milford, 
Hunterdon  County,  New  Jersey,  and  prepared  for  college  in 
Starkey  Seminary,  Eddytown,  New  York.  He  entered  Yale 
from  Syracuse  University,  to  which  he  returned  after  one  year 
with  our  Class,  graduating  in  1892  with  the  degree  of  Ph.B. 
He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  Phi  Delta  Theta.  In 
1895  he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.M.  at  Syracuse  University. 

From  1892  to  1895  he  was  superintendent  of  schools  in  Sala- 
manca, New  York;  from  1895  to  1898  in  Naugatuck,  Connect- 
icut; and  from  1898  to  1904  in  Northampton,  Massachusetts. 
The  next  year  he  was  with  the  Equitable  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany. From  1905  to  191 1  he  was  superintendent  of  schools  in 
Wakefield,  Massachusetts;  and  from  191 1  to  1914  in  Franklin 
and  Wrentham,  Massachusetts.  He  also  did  post-graduate  work 
in  the  Education  Department  of  Harvard  University  from  1904 
to  1910.  Since  1914  he  has  been  traveling  salesman  for  H.  I. 
Dallman  Company,  supply  house,  in  Boston. 

He  has  written  some  articles  on  educational  topics  and 
delivered  a  few  addresses  on  the  same  also.  He  is  an  indepen- 
dent voter  in  politics ;  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church ; 
and  a  member  of  the  following:    National  Educational  Society; 


446  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

National  Superintendents'  Association ;  Massachusetts  Superin- 
tendents' Association;,  and  New  England  Superintendents' 
Association. 

He  was  married  August  24,  1892,  in  Branchport,  New  York, 
to  M.  Edith,  daughter  of  James  and  Emily  Spencer.  They  have 
no  children. 


Alphonse  George  deRiesthal 

Lawyer,  360  Fulton  Street,  Jamaica,  Long  Island 
Residence,  Villard  Avenue,  Hollis,  Long  Island 

Alphonse  George  deRiesthal,  the  son  of  Alphonse  Joseph 
deRiesthal,  was  born  October  5,  1869,  m  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
where  he  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Polytechnic  Institute.  He 
left  college  at  the  end  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  from  1900  to  1904  lived  at 
244  Putnam  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  New  York.  He  had  an  office 
with  the  firm  of  WyckofT,  Clarke  and  Frost  in  Brooklyn,  but 
later  changed  to  the  office  of  the  same  firm  in  Jamaica,  Long 
Island,  New  York. 


James  Edward  Drake 

President,  James  B.  Drake  and  Sons,  Inc.,  lumber  and  insurance, 
72  Front  Street,  Bath,  Maine 

Mayor  of  Bath,  Maine 

Residence,  972  Washington   Street,  Bath,  Maine 

Drake  is  the  son  of  James  Brainerd  and  Georgianna  (Lincoln) 
Drake,  who  were  married  July  3,  1867,  and  had  two  other 
children:  Frederick  Ellis  Drake,  B.A.  Bowdoin  1898,  and 
Georgie  Drake  (Mrs.  James  Otis  Lincoln,  B.A.  Yale  1884,  M.D. 
Bowdoin  1892).  James  Brainerd  Drake  was  born  June  7,  1838, 
in  Orrington,  Maine,  and  died  June  19,  1906,  in  Bath,  Maine. 
He  was  the  son  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Stillman  and  Priscilla 
(iBrastow)  Drake.  The  first  American  ancestor  was  Thomas 
Drake,  who  came  from  Colyton,  Devon  County,  England,  and 
settled  in  Weymouth,  Massachusetts,  in  1650.  The  family  was 
represented  at  the  Lexington  Alarm,  April  19,  1775,  by  eighteen 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


447 


"Minute  Men."  James  Brainerd  Drake  in  1858  established  a 
shipping,  lumber,  and  insurance  business  which  since  1890  has 
been  under  the  name  of  James  B.  Drake  &  Sons.  He  built  over 
thirty  ships.     He  held  the  office  of  president  and  general  manager 


J.    EDWARD    DRAKE 


of  many  local  corporations,  but  at  the  time  of  his  death  had  given 
up  all  of  them  except  the  offices  of  vice-president  of  the  Eastern 
Steamship  Corporation,  director  of  the  First  National  Bank,  and 
president  of  the  Bath  Trust  Company.  Georgianna  (Lincoln) 
Drake,  daughter  of  Captain  Foster  Lincoln  and  Martha  (Rogers) 
Lincoln,  was  born  December  16,  1845,  in  Wiscasset,  Maine. 
Both  her  parents  were  of  English  descent,  the  first  American 
ancestor  having  settled  in  Hingham,  Massachusetts. 

James  E.  Drake  was  born  December  9,  1871,  in  Bath,  Maine, 
where  he  attended  the  high  school.  He  left  college  at  the  end 
of  Freshman  year  to  enter  business  at  home. 

He  was  engaged  in  the  yellow  pine  lumber  business  at  first, 
and  since  1891  in  fire  and  marine  insurance  and  ship  brokerage. 
Until  1901,  when  the  companies  were  absorbed  by  the  Eastern 
Steamship  Company,  he  was  treasurer  of  the  Eastern   Steam- 


448  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

ship  and  the  Kennebec  Steamboat  Company.  From  1893  until 
1895  he  was  a  member  of  the  city  government  of  Bath.  In 
1906  he  was  elected  president  of  James  B.  Drake  and  Sons,  Inc., 
and  in  1908  president  of  Sagadahoc  County  Board  of  Fire  Under- 
writers, of  which  he  had  been  elected  vice-president  in  1906.  He 
is  also  director  of  the  Lincoln  National  and  First  National  Banks 
of  Bath.  On  March  4,  1918,  he  was  elected  Mayor  of  Bath, 
the  Republican  ticket  which  he  headed  carrying  every  ward  by  a 
large  majority. 

Upon  the  call,  May,  191 7,  for  a  "company  of  able  bodied 
deputy  sheriffs  for  guard  duty  at  our  industrial  plants,"  he 
volunteered  and  was  accepted  and  enrolled.  He  is  county  chair- 
man of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Red  Cross,  Salvation  Army,  and  Food 
Conservation  executive  committees ;  vice-chairman  of  the  Liberty 
Loan  Committee,  and  a  member  of  the  Public  Safety  and 
Knights  of  Columbus  executive  committees.  On  January  24, 
191 8,  he  represented  Maine  at  the  International  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Conference  at  New  York  City. 

Since  1906  he  has  been  chairman  of  the  prudential  committee 
of  the  Winter  Street  Congregational  Church.  He  is  a  Knight 
Templar  and  an  Elk. 

He  was  married  July  23,  191 3,  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  to 
Eleanor  Jane,  daughter  of  Captain  George  Henry  Dickson 
and  Mercy  Anne  (Hodgdon)  Dickson.  They  have  one  son: 
J.  Edward,  Jr.,  born  October  18,  1914,  in  Bath,  Maine. 


James  Schneider  Dwight 

Care  of  the  Automobile  Club,  Providence,  Rhode  Island 

Dwight  is  the  son  of  William  Buck  and  Eliza  H.  (Schneider) 
Dwight,  who  were  married  November  17,  1859,  and  had  five 
other  children,  two  of  whom  survived  infancy:  Benjamin  Harj 
rison  Dwight,  Yale  1895,  and  Elizabeth  Dennison  Dwight, 
Vassar  1898.  William  Buck  Dwight,  the  son  of  the  Rev.  H.  G.  O. 
Dwight,  Hamilton  1825,  and  Elizabeth  (Barker)  Dwight,  was 
born  at  Constantinople,  May  22,  1833,  a  descendant  in  the  eighth 
generation  of  John  Dwight,  who  came  from  Dedham,  England, 
in  1634  or  1635,  and  was  an  early  settler  of  Dedham,  Massachu- 
setts.    He  graduated  from  Yale  in  1854,  studied  for  three  years 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


449 


at  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City,  and  was  licensed 
to  preach  in  April,  1857.  The  two  following  years  he  was  a  stu- 
dent at  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.B. 
in  1859.  After  teaching  in 
Englewood,  New  Jersey,  West 
Point,  New  York,  and  the 
State  Normal  School  in  New 
Britain,  Connecticut,  in  1878 
he  was  appointed  professor  of 
natural  history  and  curator  of 
the  museum  in  Vassar  Col- 
lege, at  Poughkeepsie,  New 
York.  He  was  one  of  the 
original  Fellows  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Geological 
Society  of  America  and  pub- 
lished many  articles  in  the 
American  Journal  of  Science. 
He  died  August  29,  1906,  at 
Cottage  City,  Massachusetts. 
Eliza  H.  (Schneider)  Dwight 
was  the  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Benjamin  Schneider,  mission- 
ary at  Aintab,  Syria.  The 
Rev.  James  H.  Dwight,  B.A. 

Yale  1852,  is  our  former  classmate's  uncle,  and  Charles  Abbott 
Schneider  Dwight,  B.A.  Yale  1881,  is  a  cousin. 

James  S.  Dwight  was  born  October  11,  1870,  in  New  Britain, 
Connecticut.  He  prepared  for  Yale  at  Riverview  Military  Acad- 
emy in  Poughkeepsie,  New  York.  In  college  he  was  a  member 
of  Sigma  Nu.     He  has  sent  no  recent  information. 


JAMES    S.   DWIGHT 


John  Leonard  Emerson 

General  investments  and  law,  Titusville,  Pennsylvania 

Emerson  is  the  son  of  Edward  Octavius  and  Lucy  Harriet 
(Johnson)  Emerson,  who  were  married  April  19,  i860,  and  had 
three  other  children:  Charles  Francis  Emerson,  <?.r-i886  S.,  who 
died  September  4,  1904;    Edward  Octavius  Emerson,  Jr.,  B.A. 


45° 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Yale  1898;  and  Lucy  Constance  Emerson,  B.A.  Wellesley  1896. 
Edward  Octavius  Emerson,  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Emerson, 
who  came  from  England  to  Connecticut  in  1685,  was  born  June 
6,  1834,  in  York,  Maine.     He  graduated  from  Phillips-Andover 

in  1 85 1.  From  1855  until 
i860  he  was  in  Portage,  Wis- 
consin. Then,  after  four 
years  in  the  Civil  War,  serv^ 
ing  as  First  Lieutenant  and 
Adjutant,  he  settled,  in  1865, 
in  Titusville,  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  died  July  6,  1912. 
He  was  interested  in  the  oil, 


gas,   and 


general 


JOHN    L.    EMERSON 


investment 

business,    a    member    of    the 

City  Council,  and  Mayor  of 

the  City  from  1890  to  1892. 

Lucy  Harriet    (Johnson) 

Emerson  was  born  September 

13,    1842,  in  Fremont,   Ohio. 

Her  Scotch-Irish  ancestors 

came  to  this  country  in  1750. 

John  L.  Emerson  was  born 

July   18,    1868,   in  Titusville, 

Pennsylvania .     H  e    prepared 

for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy, 

Andover,   Massachusetts.     In  college  he  was  president  of  the 

Freshman  Football  Association,  but  left  at  the  end  of  the  first 

term  in  1889  because  of  ill  health. 

He  took  a  course  at  Columbia  Law  School  later,  and  received 
his  LL.B.  degree  at  New  York  Law  School  in  1892.  Since  then 
he  has  practiced  law  in  Titusville,  Pennsylvania,  but  has  devoted 
most  of  his  time  to  general  business  pursuits. 

He  writes :  "I  served  two  terms,  1906  and  1907,  in  the  Penn- 
sylvania State  Legislature  without  being  indicted  once.  After 
which,  being  better  known  to  my  constituency,  I  was  defeated  for 
election  to  the  State  Senate.  Since  then  I  have  tried  to  earn  a 
living  in  other  ways,  but  my  business  (borrowing  money)  has 
been  badly  hurt  by  the  war." 

He  is  director  and  officer  in  the  local  hospital,  library, 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  Associated  Charities.     He  is  a  Republican  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  45 1 


a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  the  College  Board  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  United  States  of  America. 

He  was  chairman  of  the  local  draft  board  No.  i,  for  Crawford 
County,  Pennsylvania. 

He  was  married  April  19,  1893,  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana, 
to  Lilian  Ellis,  daughter  of  E.  John  Ellis,  for  many  years  a 
representative  in  Congress  from  New  Orleans,  and  Josephine 
(Chamberlain)  Ellis.  They  have  had  two  sons:  Ellis  Chamber^ 
lain,  born  April  26,  1894,  in  Titusville,  Pennsylvania;  died  Octo- 
ber 16,  1905,  in  Titusville,  Pennsylvania,  and  John  Ellis,  born 
March  14,  1896,  in  Titusville,  Pennsylvania;  Yale  1919.  John 
Ellis  Emerson  graduated  at  Phillips-Andover  in  191 5  and  entered 
the  Class  of  1919  at  Yale.  In  May,  1917,  he  enlisted  and  was 
recommended  for  the  Reserve  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fort 
Niagara,  New  York.  In  August  he  was  commissioned  Second 
Lieutenant,  Field  Artillery,  and  sailed  for  France  September  8, 
19 1 7.  He  was  assigned  to  the  59th  Coast  Artillery,  American 
E.  F.,  France,  serving  as  Intelligence  and  Liaison  officer  for  that 
regiment.  He  served  in  the  offensive  at  St.  Mihiel,  the  Argonne, 
and  east  of  the  Meuse  and  was  recommended  for  promotion, — • 
but  the  ending  of  hostilities  stopped  all  promotions.  The  day 
before  he  was  to  sail  with  his  regiment  for  home,  he  broke  his  leg 
and  had  to  be  left  in  the  military  hospital  at  Brest,  France,  where, 
at  this  writing,  January  22,  1919,  he  is  still  confined. 


Harrison  Woodbury  Flint 

City   Mission,    Washington   Street,    Boston,   Massachusetts 

Harrison  Woodbury  Flint,  the  son  of  Harrison  Flint,  was  born 
March  3,  1870,  in  Danbury,  Connecticut,  and  prepared  for  Yale 
at  Williston  Seminary.  He  left  college  in  March,  1890,  and 
nothing  is  known  of  his  activities  since.  For  a  time  his  address 
was  71  Westminster  Street,  Springfield,  Massachusetts. 


*  Arthur  Benjamin  Fox 

Died  February  9,  1891 

Fox  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Norman  Fox  and  Julia  (McKnight) 
Fox,  who  were  married  November  25,   1868.     Mrs.   Fox  died 


452  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

October  8,  1869,  and  by  a  second  mariage  there  were  three  other 
children  :  Alice  Bleecker  Fox,  Noel  Bleecker  Fox,  B.A.  Princeton 
1899,  and  Jane  Bleecker  Fox.  The  father  (born  February  13, 
1836,  in  Glens  Falls,  New  York;  died  June  23,  1907,  in  New 
York  City)  was  a  graduate  of  Rochester  University  (B.A.  1855, 
D.D.  1887)  ;  chaplain  of  the  77th  New  York  Infantry,  1862-64; 
professor  at  William  Jewell  College,  Missouri,  1869-74;  the 
author  of  several  religious  and  biographical  works,  and  connected 
with  the  management  of  several  religious  and  philanthropic 
organizations.  Norman  Fox  was  the  son  of  Norman  Fox  (born 
September  17,  1792;  died  October  3,  1863)  and  Jane  DeHart 
Freeman  (died  March  7,  1849).  This  branch  of  the  Fox  family 
was  descended  from  Thomas  Fox,  of  Concord,  Massachusetts, 
who  came  to  America  about  1630. 

Arthur  Fox's  Yale  ancestors  were  Peleg  Chesebrough,  1755, 
Jonathan  Barber,  1730,  and  James  Noyes,  a  graduate  of  Harvard 
in  1659  but  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale.  His  Yale  cousins  are 
Howard  Fox,  '94,  Alanson  G.  Fox,  1900,  Alan  Fox,  '03,  Stuart 
Fox  Freeman,  '11,  Howard  B.  Freeman,  '11,  and  Edgar  W.  Free- 
man, '12. 

Arthur  B.  Fox  was  born  September  19,  1869,  in  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Morris  Academy,  Morristown, 
New  Jersey,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  On  February  9, 
1891,  he  died  in  Morristown,  New  Jersey. 


Montgomery  Gibson 

He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  Freshman  year.     No  informa- 
tion or  address  is  available. 


Robert  Rockwell  Hall 

Owner,  Cadillac  Motor  Company,   automobile  distributors, 
1376  Broadway,  Denver,  Colorado 

Residence,  919  East  Eighth  Avenue,  Denver,  Colorado 

Hall  is  the  son  of  Edwin  Luther  and  Mary  (Rockwell)  Hall, 
who  had  three  other  children :  James  Rockwell  Hall,  Edith  Rock- 
well Hall,  and  Florence  Rockwell  Hall. 

Robert  R.  Hall  was  born  November  5,   1872,  in  Woodbury, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


453 


New  Jersey.  He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Hamilton  School  in 
West  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  He  left  college  at  the  end  of 
Freshman  year. 

During  the  year  1890-1891,  he  was  with  the  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  Machinery  and 
Supply  Company.  In  the  fall 
of  1 89 1  he  entered  the  Sopho- 
more class  in  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  and  gradu- 
ated in  1894  with  the  degree 
of  B.S.,  specializing  in  me- 
chanical engineering.  From 
that  time  until  1903  he  was 
engaged  in  stock  raising  in 
Colorado.  He  then  moved 
to  Denver  as  secretary  and 
manager  of  the  Colorado 
Automobile  Company,  an 
automobile  agency.  In  1906 
he  purchased  this  business 
and  later  changed  the  name  to 
the  Cadillac  Motor  Company 
of  Denver. 

He  is  a  Republican,  and  a 
member  of  the  Denver  and 
Denver  Country  clubs. 

He  was  married  August  6,  1910,  in  Denver,  Colorado,  to 
Rebekah  Archer,  daughter  of  William  S.  and  Martha  (Boas) 
McManus,  of  Philadelphia.  They  have  one  son :  Robert  Rock- 
well, Jr.,  born  June  10,  1913. 


ROBERT    R.    HALL 


Miles  Tracy  Hand 

Assistant  to  district  superintendent  of  construction,  Allis-Chalmers 
Manufacturing  Company,  Inc.,  38  Park  Place,  New  York  City 

Residence,  541  Sixth  Street,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

Hand  is  the  son  of  Alfred  and  Phebe  Ann  (Jessup)  Hand,  who 
were  married  September  11,  1861,  and  had  five  other  children: 
Horace  Edward  Hand,  B.A.  Yale  1884;  William  Jessup  Hand, 
B.A.  Yale  1887;    Alfred  Hand,  Jr.,  B.A.  Yale   1888;    Harriet 


454  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Jessup  Hand,  B.A.  Wellesley  1887,  who  died  November  30,  1915, 
in  Scranton,  Pennsylvania;  and  Charlotte  Chapman  Hand,  B.A. 
Wellesley  1892.  Alfred  Hand,  the  son  of  Ezra  and  Catherine 
(Chapman)  Hand,  was  born  March  26,  1835,  in  Honesdale,  Penn- 
sylvania, graduated  at  Yale  in  1857,  and  died  at  Scranton,  Penn- 
sylvania, May  23,  191 7.  On  his  father's  side  he  was  descended 
from  John  Hand,  who  came  from  Stanstede,  England,  in  1640, 
settled  at  Southampton,  Long  Island,  and  afterwards  assisted  in 
founding  Easthampton.  His  mother  was  descended  from  Robert 
Chapman,  a  Puritan,  who  came  from  Hull,  England,  in  1635, 
with  the  company  sent  by  Lords  Say  and  Sele,  and  others  inter- 
ested in  the  Connecticut  Patent,  to  erect  a  fort  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Connecticut  River,  and  later  helped  to  found  Saybrook, 
where  he  served  for  many  years  as  town  clerk  and  commissioner ; 
was  elected  deputy  to  the  General  Court  forty-three  times,  and 
assistant  nine  times  ;  and  was  captain  of  the  Train-Band.  Alfred 
Hand  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1861.  He  was  appointed  additional  judge  of  the  Eleventh  Judi- 
cial District  of  Pennsylvania  in  1879;  assigned  to  the  Forty-fifth 
Judicial  District  when  formed,  and  was  elected  judge  for  a  term 
of  ten  years  from  January  1,  1880.  In  July,  1888,  he  was 
appointed  a  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  by 
Governor  Beaver  to  fill  an  unexpired  term,  serving  until  Janu- 
ary, 1889,  when  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  and  in  1890 
formed  a  partnership  with  his  son  William.  He  was  married  a 
second  time  to  Helen  Elizabeth  Sanderson,  of  Beloit,  Wisconsin, 
by  whom  he  had  three  children:  Helen  Sanderson  Hand;  Ruth 
Boies  Hand;  and  Walter  Ezra  Hand,  who  died  in  1881,  in 
Scranton,  Pennsylvania.  Phebe  Ann  (Jessup)  Hand,  youngest 
daughter  of  Judge  William  Jessup,  B.A.  Yale  181 5,  LL.D. 
Hamilton  1848,  was  born  September  5,  1840,  in  Montrose,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  died  April  25,  1872,  in  Scranton.  Her  ancestors 
were  also  English,  who  settled  at  Easthampton  and  North  Sea, 
Long  Island,  in  the  seventeenth  century.  Three  of  her  brothers 
graduated  at  Yale:  William  Huntting  Jessup,  B.A.  1849;  tne 
Rev.  Henry  Harris  Jessup,  B.A.  1851  ;  and  the  Rev.  Samuel  Jes- 
sup, B.A.  i860.  William  Henry  Jessup,  B.A.  Yale  1884,  and 
Stuart  Dodge  Jessup,  B.A.  1891,  are  first  cousins;  and  William 
Huntting  Jessup,  B.A.  Yale  191 5,  and  James  May  Jessup,  B.A. 
Yale  1916,,  are  first-cousins-once-removed,  of  our  former  class- 
mate. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  455 

Miles  T.  Hand  was  born  May  23,  1871,  in  Scranton,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  prepared  for  college  at  the  School  of  the  Lackawanna, 
where  his  principal  instructor  was  Walter  H.  Buell,  B.A.  Yale 
1880,  now  of  the  Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville,  Connecticut.  He 
left  Yale  at  the  end  of  Freshman  year.  The  following  year  he 
entered  Williams  College,  and  received  his  B.A.  degree  in  1894. 
He  was  then  instructor  in  mathematics  in  Robert  College,  Con- 
stantinople, Turkey,  for  a  year.  On  his  return  to  this  country 
he  entered  Cornell  University  and  received  his  M.E.  degree  there 
in  1897.  From  that  time  until  1902  he  was  variously  employed 
in  engineering  work  in  Carbondale,  Philadelphia,  and  at  the  Pan- 
American  Exposition  in  Buffalo  in  1901.  From  1902  until  1906 
he  was  superintendent  of  the  National  Elevator  and  Machine 
Company  in  Honesdale,  Pennsylvania.  Since  1906  he  has  been 
living  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  holding  the  position  of  assistant 
to  the  district  superintendent  of  construction  in  the  Allis-Chal- 
mers  Manufacturing  Company,  Inc.,  in  New  York  City. 

He  writes :  "I  am  addicted  to  music — especially  the  canned 
variety — having  acquired  a  Victrola  and  a  Chickering  Player 
Piano.  I  am  also  addicted  to  the  use  of  gasoline,  both  for  water 
and  land.     However,  I  have  not  been  canned  yet. 

"In  closing — a  handclasp  to  you  all  of  '93." 

Hand  is  a  Democrat  and  a  member  of  the  First  Reformed 
(Dutch)  Church. 

He  was  married  June  13,  1899,  in  Germantown,  Pennsylvania, 
to  Helen  Fuller,  daughter  of  William  Luther  and  Modena 
(Brown)  Cooke,  of  Sag  Harbor,  New  York.  They  have  no 
children. 


*Samuel  Brainard  Hartwell 

Died  August  12,  191 1 

Samuel  Brainard  Hartwell,  son  of  Charles  F.  Hartwell,  was 
born  August  1,  1871,  in  Oil  City,  Pennsylvania.  He  prepared 
for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  New  Hampshire.  At  the 
end  of  Junior  year  he  left  college. 

Until  1896  he  was  associated  with  his  father  in  coal  mining  in 
Oil  City,  Pennsylvania.  Then  for  four  years  he  was  with  the 
Columbia  Fireproofing  Company  at  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania. 
From  1900  to  1901  he  was  in  charge  of  the  Philadelphia  branch 


456  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


office  of  that  company.  In  1901  he  was  elected  secretary,  and 
transferred  to  New  York  City,  as  manager  of  the  Company's 
office  there;  in  1902  he  was  elected  treasurer  and  general  man- 
ager and  returned  to  Pittsburgh.  He  died  August  12,  191 1,  in 
New  York  City. 

He  was  married  December  27,  1900,  to  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  F.  Dougherty  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 


William  Wilder  Hopkins 

Physician,  124  Main  Street,  Geneva,  New  York 

William  Wilder  Hopkins,  son  of  William  C.  Hopkins,  was  born 
December  27,  1869,  in  Geneva,  New  York,  where  he  attended  the 
Classical  and  Union  Schools.  He  left  Yale  in  November,  1889, 
and  entered  a  Medical  School.  Since  1909  he  has  practiced 
medicine  in  Geneva,  New  York. 

^Robert  Kellogg  Howe 

Died  August  13,  1892 

Howe  was  the  son  of  William  A.  and  Jennie  E.  (Kellogg) 
Howe,  who  were  married  October  1,  1868,  and  had  two  other 
children:  Charles  T.  Howe  and  Philip  Mead  Howe,  B.A.  Yale 
1902,  M.A.  1908.  He  was  the  direct  descendant  of  Edward 
Howe  of  Lynn,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1637  in  the  ship  True 
Love.  His  grandfather,  Nehemiah  Howe,  of  Greenwich,  Con- 
necticut, was  a  veteran  of  the  War  of  1812,  and  his  great-grand- 
father, Captain  Isaac  Howe,  was  a  patriot  in  the  Revolution,  and 
several  times  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Assembly.  His 
father,  William  A.  Howe,  was  born  in  Greenwich,  Connecticut, 
December  16,  1833,  and  lived  in  that  place  until  1880,  when  he 
removed  to  South  Windsor,  Connecticut,  where  he  died  in  191 3. 
He  was  a  farmer  by  occupation. 

Robert  K.  Howe  was  born  June  19,  1871,  in  Greenwich,  Con- 
necticut. He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Rockville  High  School. 
As  a  Junior  he  received  a  second  colloquy  appointment.  While 
spending  a  part  of  the  summer  vacation  after  Junior  year  at 
Block  Island,  Connecticut,  he  died  of  heart  failure  while  bathing 
on  August  13.     Burial  was  in  Greenwich,  Connecticut. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


457 


^Richard  Earle  Hurgren 

Died  July  n,  1908 

Richard  Earle  Hurgren  was  born  February  28,  1871,  in  Port- 
land, Oregon.  He  prepared  for  Yale  at  Bishop  Scott  Academy. 
He  left  college  in  April,  1890,  because  of  ill  health.  Afterwards 
he  became  an  attorney. 

He  died  in  the  Insane  Asylum  in  Salem,  Oregon,  July  11,  1908. 


*Edward  Crandall  Johnson 

Died  March  24,  1919 

Johnson  is  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Hattie  Emily  (Crandall) 
Johnson,  who  were  married  September  27,  1865,  and  had  one 
other  child:  Henry  D.  John- 
son. Samuel  Johnson,  of 
English  ancestry,  was  born 
November  17,  1835,  in  Leba- 
non, New  London  County, 
Connecticut.  He  has  been 
engaged  in  the  hotel  business 
in  Lebanon,  Norwich,  Lyme 
and  New  Haven,  Connecticut ; 
Yonkers,  New  York;  and 
Westerly,  Rhode  Island.  He 
was  married  a  second  time, 
June  7,  1898,  to  Lena  Hosmer 
King,  who  died  May  6,  1917. 
Hattie  Emily  (Crandall) 
Johnson,  a  descendant  of 
John  Dixwell,  one  of  the  Reg- 
icides who  settled  in  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  was  born 
December  1,  1839,  in  Nor- 
wich, Connecticut,  and  died 
there  November  19,  1880. 

Abiel  Cheney,  B.A.  Yale  1771,  was  a  great-great-grandfather,  and 
John  Camden  Downer,  B.A.  Yale  1841,  was  a  great-uncle  of 
our  classmate. 

Edward  C.  Johnson  was  born  September  19,  1869,  in  Norwich, 
Connecticut,  and  prepared  for  Yale  in  the  Norwich  Free  Acad- 


EDWARD   C.    JOHNSON 


458  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

emy.  He  left  college  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year 
because  of  an  attack  of  typhoid  fever. 

For  several  years  he  was  manager  of  the  New  Haven  House, 
New  Haven,  Connecticut.  In  1908  he  was  made  superintendent 
of  the  Yale  Dining  Club  in  charge  of  Yale  Commons.  During 
the  summer  months,  in  partnership  with  Mr.  Harry  Jones,  he 
managed  the  Plimpton  House  at  Watch  Hill,  Rhode  Island. 
He  was  on  the  advisory  board  of  the  Boardman  Apprentice 
Shops,  New  Haven. 

Owing  to  ill  health  he  resigned  his  position  with  the  Univer- 
sity in  1918.  He  died  suddenly  in  Boston,  where  he  had  gone  to 
consult  a  physician,  on  March  24,  19 19. 

He  was  a  Democrat,  attended  Dwight  Place  Congregational 
Church,  and  was  a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason. 
Since  1908  he  had  been  a  member  of  the  Second  Company, 
Governor's  Foot  Guards;  in  191 5  he  was  appointed  Paymaster 
with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  in  the  Connecticut  Naval  Militia. 

He  was  married  November  25,  1897,  in  Westerly,  Rhode  Island, 
to  Louella  C,  daughter  of  John  Alden  and  Augusta  (Crumb) 
Peabody.  They  had  five  children:  Walter  Peabody,  born  Sep- 
tember 3,  1898,  in  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Hariette  Augusta,  born 
August  15,  1900,  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut  State  College  for 
Women  1921 ;  Emily  Louise,  born  December  7,  1903,  in  New 
Haven;  Christine,  born  November  13,  1905,  in  New  Haven,  and 
Edward  C,  Jr.,  born  November  16,  1909,  in  New  Haven. 


Lewis  Fuller  Johnson 

Lewis  Fuller  Johnson  was  born  June  10,  1868,  in  La  Grange, 
Maine,  and  prepared  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Massachusetts.  He  left  college  in  February  of  Senior  year,  and 
no  further  information  concerning  him  is  available. 


Henry  Hamilton  Lewis 

Merchant,  315  West  Main  Street,  Louisville,  Kentucky 

Residence,  Corner  Third  and  Magnolia  Avenues,  Louisville,  Kentucky 

Henry  Hamilton  Lewis,  the  son  of  Frederick  H.  Lewis,  was 
born  September  26,  1870,  in  Louisville,  Kentucky.     He  prepared 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  459 


for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Massachusetts.  He 
left  college  in  Freshman  year.  From  1890  to  1892  he  was  at 
Harvard  University. 

The  latest  information  concerning  him,  sent  in  in  1909,  is  that 
he  is  a  merchant  at  the  above  address  in  Louisville,  Kentucky. 


^Robert  Oliver  Lowry 

Died  November  16,  1895 

Lowry  was  the  youngest  son  of  Reigert  Bolivar  and  Catharine 
Elizabeth  (Courtright)  Lowry.  His  father,  a  Commodore  in  the 
United  States  Navy,  was  born  in  1826  in  Venezuela,  and  died 
November  25,  1880,  at  the  Brooklyn  Navy  Yard.  Commodore 
Lowry  was  the  youngest  son  of  Robert  K.  Lowry,  United  States 
diplomatic  agent  in  Venezuela  from  1806  to  1826,  and  Henrietta 
(Wager)  Lowry,  daughter  of  Peter  Wager  of  Philadelphia  and 
great-great-granddaughter  of  Sir  Charles  Wager,  the  Admiral  of 
the  White  Fleet,  whose  monument  is  in  Westminster  Abbey  in 
London.  Our  classmate's  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Milton 
Courtright,  a  descendant  of  the  family  coming  from  Kornicht 
(now  called  Courtrai),  Flanders,  and  Hanna  (Passmore)  Court- 
right,  of  English  descent. 

Robert  O.  Lowry  was  born  August  3,  1870,  in  New  London, 
Connecticut.  He  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire.     In  November,  1890,  he  left  Yale. 

He  died  from  a  hemorrhage,  the  result  of  tonsilitis,  November 
16,  1895,  in  New  York  City.     Burial  was  in  Erie,  Pennsylvania. 

He  was  unmarried. 


*  Charles  Mathew  Ludwig 

Died  June  6,   1917 

Charles  Mathew  Ludwig,  the  son  of  John  Ludwig,  was  born 
January  18,  1871,  in  Winona,  Minnesota.  He  attended  Sacred 
Heart  College,  Prairie  du  Chien,  Wisconsin,  and  Hopkins  Gram- 
mar School  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut.  He  left  the  Class  at 
Christmas  time,  Freshman  year.  He  was  with  the  Class  of  1894 
about  the  same  length  of  time. 

He  was  deputy  bailiff  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  for  a  time. 

He  died  June  6,  191 7,  from  infection  from  an  ulcerated  tooth. 


460  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


*  James  Woods  McLane,  Jr. 

Died  October  26,  1889 

McLane  was  the  son  of  James  Woods  and  Adelaide  Lewis 
(Richards)   McLane,  who  were  married  October  10,  1866,  and 
had  two  other  children:    Guy  Richards  McLane,  Yale  1895,  and 
Thomas  Sabine  McLane,  Yale  1898.     James  Woods  McLane,  Sr., 
son  of  the  Rev.  James  Woods  McLane,  D.D.  Yale  1829,  and  Ann 
Huntington  (Richards)  McLane,  was  born  August  19,  1839,  in 
New  York  City.     He  graduated  at  Yale  in  1861,  and  received  his 
M.D.  degree  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New 
York  City  in  1864,  being  valedictorian  of  his  class.     He  prac- 
ticed his  profession  in  New  York  City,  where  he  held  many 
positions   in   the   College   of    Physicians   and   Surgeons,   finally 
becoming  president,  and  was  connected  with  important  hospitals, 
being  president  of  the  Roosevelt  Hospital  at  the  time  of  his 
death.     He  died  November  25,  191 2,  in  New  York  City.     Ade- 
laide   Lewis     (Richards)     McLane,    the    daughter    of    Henry 
Augustus  and  Julia  Ann  (Haughton)  Richards,  was  born  in  1844 
at  Groton,  Massachusetts,  and  died  May  6,  191 7,  in  New  York 
City.     The  first  American  ancestor  on  the  Richards  side  of  the 
family  was  John  Richards,  who  married  Lydia  Beman.     He  was 
residing  in   Plymouth,   Massachusetts,   in   1637,   when  the  first 
record  of  him  appears,  and  he  moved  from  there  to  New  London, 
Connecticut,  prior  to  1660,  in  which  year  he  built  a  house  at  New 
London.     New  London  continued  to  be  the  family  home  for  six 
generations.     Our  classmate's  maternal  grandfather  and  grand- 
mother were  Henry  Augustus  Richards,  born  November  14,  1801, 
died  June  11,  1855,  and  Julia  A.  Haughton,  born  May  28,  1805, 
died  August  25,  1853.     The  following  are  Yale  relatives  of  James 
Woods  McLane,  Jr.:    a  great-great-uncle,  Guy  Richards,  1807; 
a  grandfather,  the  Rev.  James  W.  McLane,  D.D.  1829;   a  great- 
uncle,    the    Rev.    George    Richards,    M.A.    1840;     two    uncles, 
William  H.  Richards,  1850,  and  William  L.  McLane,  1869;   and 
ten  cousins,  the  Rev.  Charles  A.  L.  Richards,  B.A.  1849,  M.D. 
Jefferson  Medical  College  1852,  D.D.  Griswold  1883,  Hon.  Chan- 
ning  Richards,  B.A.   1858,  M.A.   1868,  LL.B.  Cincinnati   1859, 
George    Richards,    B.A.    1872,    LL.B.    Columbia    1876,    M.A. 
honorary  1893,  Hart  Lyman,   1873,  Rev.  William  R.  Richards, 
B.A.  1875,  D-D.  1903,  Dickinson  W.  Richards,  B.A.  1880,  LL.B. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


461 


Columbia  1882,  Philip  Vanlngen,  B.A.  1897,  M.D.  Columbia  1901, 
George  H.  Richards,  B.A.  1903,  Edward  Vanlngen,  Ph.B.  1891, 
and  McLane  Vanlngen,  Ph.B.  1893. 

James  W.  McLane,  Jr.,  was  born  March  31,  1870,  in  New 
York  City.  He  prepared  for  Yale  chiefly  at  The  Hill  School  in 
Pottstown,  Pennsylvania.  He  was  with  the  Class  only  a  month, 
as  he  died  October  26,  1889,  of  typhoid  fever,  in  New  York  City. 
Burial  was  in  Cedar  Grove  Cemetery,  New  London,  Connecticut. 


Terry  Parker 

Major,   National   Guard,   Assistant  Judge  Advocate,  Headquarters, 
29th  Division,  Camp  McClellan,  Alabama 

Lawyer,  7  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  43  North  Walnut  Street,  East  Orange,  New  Jersey 

Parker  is  the  son  of  James 
Williams  and  Ann  Amelia 
(Pratt)  Parker,  who  were 
married  October  18,  1866,  and 
had  six  other  children :  Ruth 
Gwendolyn  Parker  (Fox)  ; 
Joanna  Stoddard  Parker 
(Helming),  B.A.  1896  at 
Wellesley  College;  Minnie 
Mildred  Parker  (Green); 
Marjorie  Parker;  Gladys 
Parker;  and  Lois  Parker 
(Beak).  James  Williams 
Parker,  the  son  of  Israel  Stod- 
dard and  Adelia  (Taft) 
Parker,  was  born  September 
1,  1828,  in  Annsvilk,  Oneida 
County,  New  York.  His 
grandfather,  Eri  Parker, 
moved  into  New  York  State 
from  Litchfield  County,  Con- 
necticut, in  1792.  James  Williams  Parker  attended  a  military 
academy  in  Norwich,  Vermont,  until  his  father's  financial  diffi- 
culties made  it  imperative  for  him  to  go  to  work.     When  only 


TERRY   PARKER 


462  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


seventeen  years  old  he  engaged  in  a  canal  boat  enterprise  which 
netted  him  $500.  An  attack  of  typhoid  fever  prevented  his 
participation  in  the  Mexican  War  and  used  up  all  his  money.  In 
1849,  with  other  young  men  from  Rome,  New  York,  he  went  to 
New  York  where  they  chartered  a  sailing  vessel,  the  Mazzeppa, 
and  sailed  around  Cape  Horn  to  California  in  search  of  gold. 
The  ship  was  wrecked  off  Rio  de  Janeiro,  but  finally  they  reached 
Buena  Werba  (San  Francisco)  about  a  year  after  leaving  New 
York.  After  many  adventures  he  returned  to  Rome,  New  York, 
in  1854,  coming  over  the  Panama  route.  He  soon  started  West 
again  and  in  1856  was  an  express  messenger  on  a  route  between 
Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and  Chicago.  He  remained  with  the  United 
States  Express  Company  until  1862.  He  became  superintendent 
at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  in  i860.  He  later  organized  Parker's 
Express  Company,  which  he  sold  to  the  Adams  Express  Company. 
Under  the  name  of  the  National  Mail  Company,  for  many  years 
he  contracted  to  carry  the  mails  on  the  frontier  beyond  the  rail- 
road territory.  He  lived  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in 
Atchison,  Kansas,  where  he  died  January  22,  1898.  Ann  Amelia 
(Pratt)  Parker  was  born  November  2,  1848,  in  Nunda,  New 
York.  When  four  years  of  age  she  was  left  an  orphan  and  was 
educated  by  her  mother's  brother,  Levi  G.  Terry,  in  a  convent  at 
Leavenworth,  Kansas. 

Terry  Parker  was  born  November  1,  1870,  in  Atchison,  Kansas, 
where  he  prepared  for  college  at  the  Atchison  Latin  School.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Phi  Gamma  Delta  and  the  Yale 
Union.  He  left  Yale  at  the  end  of  Sophomore  year  to  prepare 
himself  immediately  for  the  practice  of  law.  In  June,  1894,  he 
received  his  LL.B.  degree  from  Columbia  Law  School,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  December,  1894.  During  his 
law  course  and  for  two  years  after  graduation  he  served  a  clerk- 
ship in  the  office  of  Messrs.  Man  and  Man.  In  November,  1896, 
he  opened  his  own  office  in  New  York  City,  where  he  is  still 
engaged  in  active  practice. 

In  November,  1908,  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  8th  New  Jersey 
District  Republican  Convention,  and  to  the  State  Republican 
Convention,  and  was  elected  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  East  Orange, 
New  Jersey.  In  1902  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  Bar 
as  an  attorney;  in  June,  1909,  was  made  Master  in  Chancery  in 
New  Jersey;  and  in  January,  1913,  was  appointed  Supreme 
Court  Examiner  by  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  Jersey. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  463 

He  served  as  attorney  for  New  Jersey  commuters  in  the  fight 
before  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  against  increases  in 
commutation  rates  in  1909.  In  1910  he  was  candidate  for  the 
Assembly  on  the  Progressive  League  wing  of  the  Republican 
party. 

He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Essex  Troop,  New  Jersey  National 
Guard,  June  10,  1903,  and  reenlisted  in  1908.  In  June,  1909,  he 
was  commissioned  a  Second  Lieutenant,  1st  New  Jersey  Infantry. 
He  was  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant  and  assigned  as  Battalion 
Adjutant  to  the  1st  Battalion,  1st  New  Jersey  Infantry,  in  March, 
1910.  In  1915  he  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  Company  G, 
1st  New  Jersey  Infantry,  and  in  1916  served  as  Ordnance  Officer 
and  Battalion  Adjutant  on  the  Mexican  border.  On  March  25, 
19 1 7,  he  answered  the  call  of  the  President  and  served  with  his 
regiment  on  outpost  duty  on  Jersey  City  Heights,  and  in  Septem- 
ber was  ordered  South  to  Camp  McClellan,  Alabama.  He  was 
detailed  the  first  Trial  Judge  Advocate  of  the  first  General  Court 
Martial  at  Camp  McClellan,  and  at  the  same  time  was  in  charge 
of  Machine  Gun  Company,  113th  Infantry,  until  November  10, 
1917.  From  November  10  to  November  19,  1917,  he  was 
detailed  Battalion  Adjutant,  2d  Battalion.  On  November  19, 
19 1 7,  out  of  about  fifty  applicants  among  the  officers  of  the  Divi- 
sion, he  was  assigned  to  duty  as  Judge  Advocate,  29th  Division, 
Camp  McClellan,  and  commissioned  a  Major,  U.  S.  R.  This 
commission  was  superseded  by  a  commission  as  Major,  National 
Guard. 

He  writes :  "It  is  difficult  for  a  busy  man  to  say  anything 
interesting  about  his  own  career.  I  have  had  a  good  many  inter- 
esting fights  in  the  courts  and  on  the  stump  about  things  that 
seemed  to  me  at  the  time  to  involve  some  question  of  principle. 
It  will  not  be  'all  the  same  a  hundred  years  from  now/ — not 
quite  the  same.  So  we  are  all  of  us,  I  suppose,  doing  what  we 
can  to  have  things  go  the  way  we  think  that  they  ought  to  go, 
especially  in  regard  to  the  great  issue  now  before  the  world." 

Of  his  publications  he  says:  "Only  a  few  references  in  the 
Law  Reports — sometimes  quite  lengthy.  No  one  would  pay  to 
publish  anything  else  I  ever  said, — and  I  never  had  enough  money 
myself — except  the  newspapers  during  campaigns  or  Public 
Utility  litigation." 

He  is  a  Republican  and  a  member  of  the  following:  Hope 
Lodge  124  F.  and  A.  M.,  East  Orange,  New  Jersey;   R.  A.  M., 


464  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

Orange  Chapter ;  Knights  Templars  Jersey  Commandery  No.  19 ; 
Republican  Club  of  East  Orange,  New  Jersey;    and  the  Yale 
Club  of  New  York  Citv. 
He  is  unmarried. 

Lucian  Sharpe 

Residence,  130  Angell  Street,  Providence,  Rhode  Island 

Lucian  Sharpe,  the  son  of  Lucian  Sharpe,  was  born  July  16, 
187 1,  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  where  he  attended  the  English 
and  Classical  School.  He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  Freshman 
year,  and  then  entered  Brown  University,  where  he  graduated  in 
1893.  He  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  was  a  member  of 
Alpha  Delta  Phi.  After  graduation  he  was  with  Brown  and 
Sharpe  Manufacturing  Company  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island, 
for  several  years,  and  was  made  treasurer  of  the  company  in  1903. 
Owing  to  ill  health  he  has  not  been  in  active  business  since  1905. 


Frederic  Behm  Taintor 

Managing  editor  of  The  Globe,  Globe  Square,  New  York  City 

Residence,  780  West  End  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Taintor  is  the  son  of  Giles  Edward  and  Augusta  Hoply 
(Behm)  Taintor,  who  were  married  April  17,  1867,  and  had 
four  other  children:  Giles  Augustus  Taintor,  who  died  Novem- 
ber 18,  1905,  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri;  Harold  Hancock  Taintor; 
Alice  Maude  Taintor  (Mrs.  A.  Lawrence  Phillips  of  New  York 
City)  ;  and  Ethel  Musier  Taintor  (Mrs.  John  Harper  of  New 
York  City).  Giles  Edward  Taintor,  whose  earliest  American 
ancestor,  Charles  Taintor,  came  from  Wales  and  settled  in  Fair^ 
field,  Connecticut,  in  1643,  was  born  September  22,  1838,  in 
Buffalo,  New  York.  In  1858  he  moved  from  Buffalo  to  New 
York  City  where  for  forty  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Taintor  and  Holt,  bankers  in  Wall  Street,  identified  with  many 
railroad  and  public  utility  enterprises.  He  died  January  12,  1919. 
Augusta  Hoply  (Behm)  Taintor,  related  to  the  Morris  and 
Hancock  families  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  June 
21,  1844,  in  Philadelphia,  and  died  July  17,  1914,  in  Woodstock, 
Vermont.     John  Adams  Taintor  and  Edwin  Bulkeley  Taintor, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  465 

B.A.  Yale  1821 ;  Giles  Taintor,  B.A.  Yale  1822;  and  Charles 
Taintor,  B.A.  Yale  1839,  are  relatives  of  our  former  classmate. 
Charles  Newhall  Taintor,  B.A.  Yale  1865,  is  a  second  cousin; 
and  Charles  Musier  Taintor,  Ph.B.  1900,  is  a  first  cousin. 

Frederic  B.  Taintor  was  born  June  23,  1872,  in  New  York  City. 
He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Columbia  Grammar  School  in  New 
York  City  and  Westminster  School,  Dobbs-Ferry-on-Hudson. 
He  left  college  in  the  fall  of  Sophomore  year  and  since  then  has 
been  in  newspaper  work  in  New  York  City.  After  working  on 
the  Herald,  Times  and  Evening  Sun,  in  November,  1902,  he 
took  his  present  position  with  The  Globe.  He  has,  of  course, 
written  innumerable  editorials  and  other  unsigned  articles. 

He  is  an  independent  Republican,  a  member  of  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  and  a  member  of  the  following: 
the  Union  League  and  Yale  clubs  in  New  York  City;  and  the 
Scarsdale  Golf  and  Country  Club. 

He  was  married  April  19,  1902,  in  New  York  City,  to  Grace 
Ada  Pike  (Condesa  de  Almagro),  daughter  of  Charles  Henry 
and  Rebecca  Leach  (Stackpole)  Pike.     They  have  no  children. 


*William  Preston  Thornton 

William  Preston  Thornton,  the  son  of  R.  A.  Thornton,  was 
born  March  19,  1871,  in  Lexington,  Kentucky,  and  was  prepared 
for  Yale  in  Pantops  Academy,  Charlottesville,  Virginia.  He  left 
college  at  the  end  of  Junior  year.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
University  Club  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

No  details  concerning  the  circumstances  of  his  death  are 
available. 

Charles  Holmes  Thrall 

President,   Thrall  Electric  Company,  Neptuno,   corner   Monseratte, 
Havana,  Cuba 

Residence,  296  North  Oxford  Street,  Hartford,  Connecticut 

Thrall  is  the  son  of  Julius  S.  and  Mary  (Holmes)  Thrall,  who 
were  married  May  18,  1853,  and  na<3  six  other  children,  four  of 
whom  are  living:  Will  Thrall;  Dwight  Thrall ;  Carrie  (Thrall) 
Kingsbury;  and  Edna  (Thrall)  Kochler.  Julius  S.  Thrall  was 
the  son  of  Ira  and  Larissa  (Sparks)  Thrall,  of  Vernon,  Connect- 


466  GLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

icut.  The  earliest  American  ancestor  of  the  family  was  William 
Thrall,  1605  to  1678,  who  fought  in  the  Pequot  War  in  1637,  for 
which  he  received  a  grant  of  land  from  the  King.  Mary 
(Holmes)  Thrall  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Sabrina  (Case) 
Holmes,  of  West  Stafford,  Connecticut.  John  Holmes,  1663  to 
171 3,  among  whose  descendants  is  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  was 
her  first  American  ancestor. 

Charles  H.  Thrall  was  born  August  25,  1870,  in  Rockville, 
Connecticut,  and  prepared  for  Yale  there  in  the  high  school. 
He  left  Yale  early  in  Sophomore  year. 

He  went  to  Cuba  in  the  employ  of  Thomson-Houston  Electric 
Company.  During  the  Spanish  War,  while  acting  as  a  spy  for 
the  United  States,  he  was  captured  and  condemned  to  be  shot, 
but  was  exchanged  for  a  Spanish  colonel.  He  then  returned  to 
the  United  States,  but  after  the  war  returned  to  Cuba  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Charles  H.  Thrall  and  Company.  Warnock 
wrote  of  him:  "His  work  was  to  install  electric  lighting  plants. 
In  the  course  of  that  work  he  distinguished  himself  at  Matanzas. 
There  the  system  had  been  completed  just  as  a  tropical  tornado 
came  up,  flooding  the  place  and  wrecking  everything.  Under 
the  greatest  difficulty  he  kept  all  the  lights  he  could  burning,  for 
it  was  night,  and  was  complimented  for  his  daring,  which  is  said 
to  have  saved  many  lives.  To  keep  the  dynamos  going,  they 
passed  coal  through  water  waist  deep  to  the  furnaces  with  water 
nearly  to  the  grate." 

He  is  now  director  of  the  Punta  Alegre  Sugar  Company  and 
the  Florida  Sugar  Company,  and  treasurer  of  the  Nalerino  Sugar 
Company,  as  well  as  president  of  the  Thrall  Electric  Company. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American,  Country,  and  Yacht  clubs  of 
Havana ;   and  the  Athletic  Club  of  New  York  City. 

He  was  married  October  9,  1895,  m  Rockville,  Connecticut,  to 
Ida,  daughter  of  John  and  Emma  (Bilson)  McPherson.  They 
have  one  daughter:  Corinne,  born  July  15,  1896,  in  Rockville, 
Connecticut. 


Corydon  Curtiss  Tyler 

Pastor,   Trinity    Presbyterian   Church,   Chestnut   Hill,    Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania 

Corydon  Curtiss  Tyler  is  the  son  of  Corydon  Elial  and  Lucy 
(Wells)   Tyler,  who  were  married  December  24,  186 1,  and  had 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


467 


five  other  children:  Lucy  Wells  Tyler  (Mrs.  Clifford  S.  Kelsey)  ; 
Mary  Ella  Tyler  (Mrs.  Raymond  Clark)  ;  Charles  L.  Tyler,  who 
died  on  March  17,  1875,  in  Plainfield,  New  Jersey;  George  P. 
Tyler,  who  died  on  September  3,  1868,  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York;  and  Alice  L.  Tyler, 
who  died  on  August  17,  1901, 
in  Westfield,  New  Jersey. 
Corydon  Elial  Tyler,  son  of 
Corydon  and  Dolly  Jane 
(Curtiss)  Tyler,  whose  an- 
cestors came  from  England, 
probably  to  Branford,  Con- 
necticut, in  the  seventeenth 
century,  was  born  July  5, 
1834,  in  Binghamton,  New 
York.  He  was  an  importer 
of  drugs,  essential  oils,  and 
vanilla  beans,  from  1859, 
when  the  firm  of  Kitchen, 
Tyler,  and  Company  was 
formed,  until  1906,  when  he 
resigned  from  the  Corpora- 
tion of  Tyler  and  Finch  Com- 
pany of  which  he  was  presi- 
dent. He  lived  most  of  his 
life  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 

where  he  died  November  23,  191 7.  Lucy  (Wells)  Tyler, 
daughter  of  Daniel  Lee  and  Betsy  (Gavit)  Wells,  also  of  Engj 
lish  ancestry,  was  born  November  19,  1838,  in  Kingston,  New 
York,  and  died  January  23,  19 10,  in  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Corydon  Curtiss  Tyler  was  born  February  23,  1866,  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  Lie  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  high  school 
in  Plainfield,  New  Jersey,  and  in  Worcester  Academy,  Worcester, 
Massachusetts.  In  college  he  wrote  notes  on  collegiate  athletics 
for  several  periodicals,  was  a  member  of  the  College  Choir,  and 
of  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  He  left  the  Class  in  Sophomore  year 
because  of  ill  health.  From  1892  to  1894  he  studied  in  Yale 
Divinity  School,  and  the  next  year  went  to  Auburn  Theological 
Seminary,  graduating  in  1895  with  honors.  Since  then  he  has 
been  pastor  of  Trinity  Presbyterian  Church,  Chestnut  Hill, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 


CORYDON    C    TYLER 


468  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

In  1910  he  traveled  abroad.  He  has  delivered  the  following 
lectures  :  "England,  Historic  and  Picturesque" ;  "Bavarian  Cities," 
and   "The  Bernese  Oberland." 

He  writes :  "It  is  rather  odd  and  disappointing  that  one  should 
have  lived  a  full  and  busy  life  and  yet  have  so  little  to  tell  about 
it.  It  is  true  that  much  that  was  hoped  for  has  not  materialized ; 
it  is  also  true  that  some  rewards  that  were  not  taken  into  con- 
sideration have  serenely  come  to  light.  Honors  and  books  and 
degrees  which  figured  in  the  early  visions  have  somehow  failed  to 
connect;  but  life  is  not  empty  for  all  that,  and  one  would  be 
reluctant  to  think  that  the  years  had  been  altogether  wasted. 

"My  one  keenest  regret  is  that  it  has  not  been  possible  for  me 
to  make  good  my  full  standing  as  a  member  of  this  Class.  But 
there  have  been  too  many  other  tasks  steadily  crowding  in  to 
exhaust  time  and  strength  to  leave  a  sufficient  margin  for  back 
wTork.  So  that  hope  is  still  deferred.  The  degree  remains  a  desir- 
able objective,  but  the  delay  in  its  attainment,  in  view  of  the 
pressure  of  human  needs  to-day,  cannot  be  regarded  as  a  matter 
of  supreme  importance.  Every  ounce  of  individual  weight  and 
strength  is  sacred  to  the  cause  of  human  welfare  as  against 
incarnated  treachery  and  the  domination  of  the  world  by  brute 
force.  The  desire  for  personal  gratification  is  swallowed  up  in 
the  greater  interest  of  the  questions  at  stake  in  the  world  in  this 
decisive  day,  and  in  the  desire  to  help,  however  obscurely,  in  the 
meeting  of  those  issues  in  which  lie  enfolded  almost  every  hope 
of  the  world's  future.  May  our  Brotherhood  here  be  typical  of 
that  needed  fraternity  of  mankind,  wherein,  with  high  aim  and 
trained  intelligence,  the  truest  welfare  of  all  is  sought  by  the 
loyal  and  sacrificial  service  of  each." 

From  November,  1918,  to  March,  1919,  Tyler  served  as  Pres- 
byterian Camp  Pastor  in  Camp  Dix,  New  Jersey. 

Tyler  is  an  Independent  in  politics. 

He  was  married  September  11,  1895,  in  New  Haven,  Connect- 
icut, to  Charlotte  Ellen,  daughter  of  Benjamin  C.  Lum,  a  banker, 
and  Lucy  (Bronson)  Lum.  They  have  three  daughters:  Mary 
Ethelyn,  born  April  5,  1897,  Bryn  Mawr,  Class  of  1919; 
Margaret,  born  July  17,  1900,  Bryn  Mawr,  Class  of  1922,  and 
Charlotte,  born  January  28,  191 1. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  469 


Pere  Gustav  Wallmo 

Export  forwarder  and  broker  to  Scandinavia  and  South  America, 
New  York  City 

Owner  of  Wallmo  Poultry  Farm,  Stony  Creek,  Connecticut 

Wallmo  is  the  son  of  Otto  Edmund  and  Louise  (Rodestrom) 
Wallmo,  who  were  married  in  1864,  and  had  one  other  child, 
Eva  Louise  Wallmo.  Otto  Edmund  Wallmo  was  born  in  1816, 
in  Sweden,  where  he  spent  his  life  as  a  manufacturer  of  steel 
and  iron.  He  died  there  in  1872.  Louise  (Rodestrom)  Wallmo 
was  born  in  Sweden,  March  24,  1836. 

Pere  G.  Wallmo  was  born  February  13,  1871,  in  Ribbeboda, 
Sweden.  He  attended  the  public  school  in  Orebro,  Sweden,  and 
the  Harry  Hillman  Academy  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pennsylvania.  He 
left  the  Class  early  in  Sophomore  year. 

Shortly  after  leaving  college  he  entered  the  War  Department 
in  Washington,  D.  G,  where  he  remained  until  1894.  The  fol- 
lowing year  he  was  with  the  Herald  in  Middletown,  Connecticut. 
From  the  fall  of  1895  until  191 1  he  was  secretary  to  Congress- 
man N.  D.  Sperry,  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  and  engaged  in 
newspaper  work.  In  connection  with  his  duties  in  Washington 
he  had  studied  in  the  Columbian  Law  School,  receiving  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1896.  On  May  15,  191 1,  he  opened  a  law 
office  in  New  Haven,  but  in  19 12  moved  to  Stony  Creek,  Con- 
necticut, to  engage  in  poultry  husbandry.  On  June  6,  1918,  he 
closed  up  this  business  for  the  duration  of  the  war  and  was 
appointed  a  special  agent  of  the  Department  of  Justice  with 
headquarters  at  the  New  York  office. 

He  writes:  "Just  now  I  seem  to  be  chasing  the  elusive  Ger- 
man spy;  the  slacker;  the  deserter;  the  German  sympathizer; 
and  doing  anything  else  that  may  assist,  in  a  small  way  perhaps, 
the  ending  of  the  war.  I  have  no  time  for  recreation,  and  not 
much  time  to  think  or  talk  about  anything  except  the  numerous 
cases  that  come  up  for  investigation  from  day  to  day.  The  work 
is  interesting  and  exciting.  More  men  above  the  fighting  age, 
who  know  foreign  languages,  ought  to  take  it  up  during  the  war. 
Every  little  bit  helps/' 

In  February,  1919,  he  adds :  "I  am  now  an  export  forwarder 
and  broker,  especially  to  Scandinavia  and  South  America,  located 
at  New  York.     It  is  almost  as  exciting  as  being  an  investigator 


470  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 

during  the  war.  Still  I  am  in  hopes  to  return  some  day  to  my 
farm  in  Connecticut  and  once  more  settle  down  to  the  attractive 
life  of  a  'gentleman  poultryman'    (whatever  that  is)." 

He  is  an  independent  Republican.  He  admits  that  he  has 
written  some  magazine  articles  on  various  subjects  "but  can't 
recall  them  now."  In  May,  191 7,  he  was  sergeant,  1st  Company 
Stony  Creek,  26.  Regiment  Connecticut  Home  Guard,  but  is  now 
on  leave  of  absence  for  government  service. 

He  was  married  December  26,  1903,  in  New  Haven,  Connect- 
icut, to  Bess  Jewell  Case,  a  professional  singer.  She  is  the 
daughter  of  Edwin  Case,  deputy  in  the  office  of  the  Collector 
of  Customs,  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  and  Frances  Elizabeth 
(Davis)  Case.     They  have  no  children. 


Frank  Curtis  Wilder 

Frank  C.  Wilder,  the  son  of  W.  F.  Wilder,  was  born  October 
I,  1869,  in  Cook  County,  Illinois,  but  prepared  for  Yale  at 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut.  He 
left  college  early  in  Junior  year. 


^Walter  Jones  Willard 

Died  November  4,  1893 

Willard  was  the  son  of  Caleb  Clapp  and  Allie  (Jones) 
Willard,  who  had  one  other  child,  a  daughter,  Catharine  Dorr 
Willard  (Mrs.  John  C.  Boyd).  C.  C.  Willard,  of  English 
ancestry,  was  born  August  10,  1834,  in  Westminster,  Vermont, 
the  son  of  Joseph  and  Susan  (Dorr)  Willard.  His  occupation 
was  real  estate.  He  died  August  2,  1905.  Mrs.  Willard  was  the 
daughter  of  John  W.  and  Catharine  Stoakley  (Lloyd)  Jones, 
also  of  English  ancestry.  She  was  born  August  19,  1836,  in 
Hampton,  Virginia,  and  died  June  9.  1874,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
A  cousin,  Harry  Kellogg  Willard,  B.A.  1879,  LL.B.  1881  and 
M.L.  1882  George  Washington  University,  is  a  Yale  relative. 

Walter  J.  Willard  was  born  December  1,  1868,  in  Washington, 
D.  C.  He  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
New  Hampshire.     He  was  with  the  Class  only  one  term,  because 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  471 

of  ill  health  caused  by  a  serious  accident  which  had  resulted  in 
the  amputation  of  one  leg.  After  leaving  college  he  returned 
to  Washington,  D.  C,  and  then  went  to  Norfolk,  Virginia,  and 
studied  law  in  the  firm  of  Tunstall  and  Thorn.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  and  returned  to  Washington  to  practice  his  profession. 

He  died  of  pneumonia  in  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  November  4, 
1893,  and  was  buried  in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

He  was  unmarried. 


STATISTICS 
ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS 


NECROLOGY 


Name 

Date 

Cause  of  Death 

I. 

William  Henry  Vanderbilt 

May  23,    1892 

Typhoid  fever 

2. 

Elliot  Stone  Curtis 

July  1,  1894 

Struck  by  lightning 

3- 

Richard  Edward  Dunham 

March  21,  1896 

Blood  poisoning 

4- 

William  James  McKenna 

December  18,  1896 

Tuberculosis 

5- 

Robert  Edwin  Rowley 

March  14,  1897 

Pneumonia 

6. 

Morris  Woodruff 

December  31,  1897 

Heart  failure 

7- 

Robert  Storer  Tracy 

April  13,  1899 

Drowned 

8. 

Albert  Wells  Pettibone,  Jr. 

September  29,  1899 

Pneumonia 

9- 

Frank  James  Brown 

February  14,  1900 

Anaemia 

10. 

Jonathan  Boynton  Dill 

April  29,  1900 

Acute  spinal  meningitis 

11. 

Alfred  Henry  Jones 

January  15,  1901 

Tuberculosis 

12. 

Harry  Llewellyn  Bixby 

October  20,  1902 

Appendicitis 

13. 

Frank  Howard  Britton 

November  1,  1902 

Tuberculosis 

14 

Frederick  Merwin  Lloyd 

May  13,  1905 

Cancer 

15. 

Richard  Charles  Wells 

Wadsworth 

August  2,  1905 

Typhoid  fever 

16. 

Theodore  Woolsey 

Heermance 

September  29,  1905 

Typhoid  fever 

17. 

William  Henry  Murphy 

February  15,  1906 

Tuberculosis 

18. 

Sherwood  Bissell  Ives 

February  16,  1907 

Accidental  shooting 

19. 

George  Greene  Martin 

February  24,  1907 

Tuberculosis 

20. 

Henry  Crosley  Stetson 

April  16,  1907 

Apoplexy 

21. 

Frederick  Asbury  Hill 

August  31,  1907 

Typhoid  fever 

22. 

Robert  Kerr  Dickerman 

September  4,  1907 

Suicide 

23. 

John  Harvey  Wigginton 

May  21,  1909 

Nervous  prostration 

24. 

George  Justus  Briggs 

June  15,  1911 

Dysentery 

25. 

Burton  Emerson  Leavitt 

November  19,  1912 

Sarcoma 

26. 

Thomas  Augustus  Gardiner 

October  30,  1912 

Tuberculosis 

27. 

Donald  Cameron  Haldeman 

July  25,  1914 

Paresis 

28. 

William  Walton  Eccles 

August  16,  1914 

Cancer 

29. 

Francis  Oswald  Dorsey 

June   17,  191? 

Peritonitis 

30. 

Rufus  Macqueen  Gibbs 

February  5,  1916 

Brain  tumor 

31. 

Joseph  Anderson 

March  26,  1917 

Cirrhosis   of   the   liver 
and  nephritis 

32. 

Ralph  Birdsall 

September  23,  1918 

Tubercular  meningitis 

33- 

Ross  Burchard 

November  14,  1918 
MISSING 

Apoplexy 

Howard  Dana  Bradley,  disappeared  December  23,  1902,  probably  deceased. 
Dexter  Edgar  Tilley,  whereabouts  unknown  since  1905. 


476 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


SUMMARY,  GRADUATES  ONLY 

Total  graduates   185 

Deceased   33 

Died  since  Vicennial   8 

Missing    2 

Married,  including  those  who  have  died  140 

Fathers  of  one  child  each  25 

Fathers  of  two  children  each  31 

Fathers  of  three  children  each    25 

Fathers  of  four  children  each   8 

Fathers  of  five  children  each  8 

Father  of  seven  children,  G.  F.  Goodenough  1 

Father  of  nine  children,  A.  H.  Morse   1 

Father  of  ten  children,  Jesse  B.  Johnson 1 

Boys,   121.  Girls,   139. 


OCCUPATIONS 


Art,  2. 

Education  and  Science,  14. 
Engineering,  2. 
Farming  and  Planting,  3. 
Finance,  19. 
Government  Service,  6. 
Journalism  and  Letters,  5. 
Dead,  33. 

Tri- 
ennial. 
No.       % 

Art  and  Architecture    ...  1       .5 

Education  and  Science   . .  36  19.5 

Engineering   2     1.1 

Farming  and  Planting    . .  o    0.0 

Finance    10    5.4 

Government    Service    ....  2    1.1 

Journalism  and  Letters  . .  7    3.2 

Law  and  Judiciary   62  33.6 

Manufacturing    20  10.9 

Medicine   15     8.0 

Mercantile   Business   18    9.18 

Ministry    4    2.2 

Transportation    4    2.2 

No  occupation    0    0.0 

Deceased    3     1.6 

Missing    0    0.0 


Law  and  Judiciary,  50. 
Manufacturing,  17. 
Medicine,  12. 
Mercantile  Business,  8. 
Ministry,  3. 
Transportation,  4. 
No  occupation,  5. 
Missing,  2. 


Sex- 
ennial. 

No.      i 
I        .5 

Decen-      Quin-        Vicen- 
nial,     decennial.      nial. 

No.       $  No.       <fo   No.       <fc 

1      -5     1      -5     1      -5 

iwenty- 
five  year 

record. 
No.      $ 

2      I.I 

30 

16.3  25 

13.6  20  10.9  17    9.2 

14    7-6 

2 

1.1 

0 

0.0    4    2.2    2    1.1 

2    1.1 

0 

0.0 

0 

0.0    3     1.6    3    1.6 

3    1.6 

13 

7.0  14 

7.6  12    6.6  19  10.3 

19  10.3 

I 

•5 

2 

1.1     1      .5    2    1.1 

6    3-2 

5 

2.7 

5 

2.7    5    2.7    4    2.2 

5    2.7 

63 

34-0 

57  30.9  54  29.3  53  28.8 

50  27.0 

21 

11.4 

22 

1 1.9  20  10.9  19  10.3 

17    9.2 

15 
17 

8.0 
9.2 

15 

18 

8.0  13    7-0  13    7-0 
9.8  16    8.6  13    7.0 

12    6.5 
8    4.3 

4 

2.2 

4 

2.2    4    2.2    4    2.2 

3     1.6 

4 

2.2 

4 

2.2    4    2.2    5    2.7 

4    2.2 

1 

•5 

5 

2.7    3    1.6    2    1.1 

5    2.7 

7 

3-2 

12 

6.6  21  1 1.4  24  13.0 

33  17-8 

0 

0.0 

0 

0.0    3    1.6    2    1.1 

2    1.1 

LOCALITY  INDEX 


California — 7 

MlDDLETOWN  : 

Florida — 1 

BURLINGAME  : 

Fox 

Miami  : 

Rathbone 

New  Canaan : 

Spalding 

Pasadena  : 

Rogers 

Illinois — 5 

Cravens 

New  Haven: 

Chicago  : 

Redlands  : 

Avery,  J.  W. 

Ewing 

Hodge 

Hackett 

Freeport : 

Joy 

Jepson 
Judson 

Burrell 

San  Francisco: 

Merritt 

Jacksonville  : 

Breeze 

Nadler 

Capps 

Westerfeld 

Peck 

Sedgwick 

Maywood  : 

San  Mateo: 

Vaile 

Clark,  C.  W. 

New  London  : 

Avery,  C  L. 

Springfield  : 
Hay 

Colorado — 2 

Norfolk  : 

Denver  : 

Stoeckel 

Indiana — 1 

Graham 

RoPKVTT  T  F  ' 

Indianapolis  : 

Hall 

Mathison 
Thomas 

Edmison 

Connecticut — 30 

Kentucky — 4 

Ansonia  : 

South   Norwalk: 

Louisville  : 

Bristol 

Candee 

Allen,  L. 
Lewis 

Bridgeport: 

Stamford  : 

McKnight 

Boardman 

Quintard 

Pewee  Valley  : 

Colchester  : 

Stony  Creek: 

Gatchel 

Wallis 

Wallmo 

Louisiana — 1 

Greenwich  : 

SUFFIELD  I 

Hope  Villa  : 

Wright 

Spencer 

Foos 

Hartford  : 
Bliss 

Waterbury  : 
Bull 

Maine — 1 

Holbrook 
Parsons 
Robinson 
Thrall 

Grafton 
Dist.  of  Columbia — 3 

Bath  : 
Drake 

Washington  : 

Massachusetts — 10 

Laughlin 

Boston  : 

Led yard : 

Putney 

Allen,  J.  W. 

Goodenough,  G.  F. 

Wilcox 

Flint 

473 


CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Brockton  : 

Paterson  : 

Abbe 

v    Allen,  H.  C. 

Cooke,  J.  B. 

Jamaica  Plain: 

Hutchins 

Summit: 

Lamson,  E.  R. 

Mattapan  : 

Lamson,  W.  J. 

Faxon 

Oakdale  : 

New  York — 62 

Peirce 

Albany  : 

Reading  : 

Wachsman 

Carfrey 

Buffalo: 

Springfield  : 

Lyon 

Sackett 

Bosworth 

Smith 

Brownson 

Clarke,  J.  D. 

Brooklyn  : 

Chatfield 

Michigan — i 

Newton 

Detroit  : 

Trask 

Moore,  F.  A. 

Hand 

Dunkirk  : 

Minnesota — 4 

Hurlbert 

Minneapolis  : 

Fairport  : 

Jordan 

White 

Morse 

St.   Paul  : 

Fisher's  Island: 

Slade 

Terriberry 

Wheelock 

Geneva : 

Hopkins 

Missouri — 1 

St.  Louis  : 

Jamaica  : 

Maffitt 

deRiesthal 

Mount  Vernon  : 

New  Hampshire — 1 

Breckenridge 

Concord  : 

Newburgh  : 

Torbert 

Scott 

New  Jersey — 7 

New  York  City  : 

Jersey  City: 

Barnes 

Hastings 

Bates 

Martin 

Beadleston 

Beebe 

Newark  : 

Begg 

Sutphen 

Borden 

Bottome 

Bowns 

Brown 

Cartwright 

Creevey 

Dwight,  H.  R. 

Dwight,  W.  E. 

Eddy 

Fay 

Field 

Folk 

Greer 

Hare 

Harmstad 

Hickox 

Higgins 

Hill 

Lambert 

Lord 

Marvin 

Morgan 

Newell 

Parker,   T. 

Pope 

Shaw 

Strong 

Taintor 

Taylor 

Thomson 

Wade 

Welles,  L,  A. 

Wells,  E.  H. 

Woolner 

Yates 

Ossining: 
Hobbie 

Pelham  : 
Ferguson 

Rochester  : 
Bacon 
Roby 

Syracuse : 
Moore,  J.  S. 

Utica  : 
Crouse 


LOCALITY  INDEX 


479 


Watervliet  : 

Mills,  C.  W. 

Providence  : 

Runk 

Scoville 

Day 

Swayne 

Dwight,  J.  S. 

Ohio — 7 

Trumbull 

Sharpe 

Cincinnati  : 

Tyler 

Jones 
Mills,  G.  E. 

Pittsburgh  : 

South  Carolina — 1 

Parker,  W.  W.  W. 

Charleston  : 

Cleveland  : 

POTTSTOWN  : 

Ficken 

Chisholm 

Harvey 

Warnock 

Texas — 1 

Osborn 

Tracy 

Williams 

Scranton  : 
Donnelly 
Rice 

Waco: 

Johnson,  J.  B. 

Pennsylvania — 12 

Titusville  : 

Washington — 1 

Bryn  Mawr  : 

Emerson 

Pe  Ell: 

Wheeler 

Rhode  Island — 4 

Butz 

Philadelphia  : 

East  Greenwich  : 

Babbitt 

Gallaudet 

ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS 

GRADUATES 

Franklin  J.  Abbe,  105  Main  St.,  Brockton,  Mass. 

Henry  C.  Allen,  Silk  City  Trust  Bldg.,  Paterson,  N.  J. 

J.  Weston  Allen,  330  Tremont  Bldg.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Lafon  Allen,  Lincoln  Bank  Bldg.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Christopher  L.  Avery,  Plant  Bldg.,  New  London,  Conn. 

John  W.  Avery,  299  Norton  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Dr.  James  A.  Babbitt,  1901  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Henry  S.  Bacon,  23  Faraday  St.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Henry  B.  Barnes,  45  Cedar  St.,  New  York  City. 

Ellery  A.  Bates,  518  W.  204th  St.,  New  York  City. 

Henry  C.  Beadleston,  Room  3025,  120  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

George  P.  Beebe,  34  Nassau  St.,  New  York  City. 

William  R.  Begg,  24  Broad  St.,  New  York  City. 

Clifford  D.  Bliss,  Box  1281,  Hartford,  Conn. 

William  B.  Boardman,  303  Mill  Hill  Ave.,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Gerald  M.  Borden,  35  E.  51st  St.,  New  York  City. 

Charles  W.  Bosworth,  Court  Square  Theatre  Bldg.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Harry  H.  Bottome,  346  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

Howard  S.  Bowns,  1  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

William  E.  Breckenridge,  21  Sycamore  Ave.,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

Thomas  H.  Breeze,  Insurance  Exchange  Bldg.,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Theodore  L.  Bristol,  100  Main  St.,  Ansonia,  Conn. 

Lawrence  E.  Brown,  32  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

Wendell  G.  Brownson,  31  Elm  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

C.  Sanford  Bull,  151  Hillside  Ave.,  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Harvey  P.  Butz,  Pe  Ell,  Wash. 

Nehemiah  Candee,  United  Bank  Bldg.,  South  Norwalk,  Conn. 

William  T.  Capps,  1018  W.  State  St.,  Jacksonville,  111. 

Otho  G.  Cartwright,  25  Broad  St.,  New  York  City. 

Thomas  I.  Chatfield,  Federal  Bldg.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Alvah  S.  Chisholm,  Western  Reserve  Bldg.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Charles  W.  Clark,  San  Mateo,  Calif. 

John  D.  Clarke,  387  Main  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

J.  Barclay  Cooke,  270  Passaic  Ave.,  Paterson,  N.  J. 

John  S.  Cravens,  1101  Orange  Grove  Ave.,  Pasadena,  Calif. 

George  M.  Creevey,  M.D.,  40  E.  63d  St.,  New  York  City. 

Beecher  M.  Crouse,  369  Genesee  St.,  Utica,  N.  Y. 

Howard  D.  Day,  216  Medway  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Frank  E.  Donnelly,  734  Clay  Ave.,  Scranton,  Pa. 

Henry  R.  Dwight,  137  W.  23d  St.,  New  York  City. 

Winthrop  E.  Dwight,  Ph.D.,  62  Cedar  St.,  New  York  City. 

Charles  B.  Eddy,  62  Cedar  St.,  New  York  City. 

John  P.  Edmison,  care  Indianapolis  Star,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Charles  H.  Ewing,  1642  W.  Lake  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Charles  J.  Fay,  14  Wall  St.,  New  York  City. 


ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS  481 

Archer  L.  Faxon,  31  Rosewood  St.,  Mattapan,  Mass. 

Irving  B.  Ferguson,  Pelham,  N.  Y. 

Henry  H.  Ficken,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

John  H.  Field,  care  The  American  Agricultural  Chemical  Co.,  2  Rector 
St.,  New  York  City. 

George  E.  Folk,  195  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

George  M.  Foos,  Audubon  Plantation,  Hope  Villa,  La. 

James  C.  Fox,  275  Washington  Terrace,  Middletown,  Conn. 

Edson  F.  Gallaudet,  Ph.D.,  Gallaudet  Aircraft  Corporation,  East  Green- 
wich, R.  I. 

Francis  E.  Gatchel,  Pewee  Valley,  Ky. 

Rev.  Giles  F.  Goodenough,  Ledyard,  Conn. 

James  E.  Grafton,  Crosby  High  School,  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Dr.  Charles  A.  Graham,  1554  California  St.,  Denver,  Colo. 

Lawrence  Greer,  37  Wall  St.,  New  York  City. 

William  H.  Hackett,  38  Lynwood  Place,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Montgomery  Hare,  22  William  St.,  New  York  City. 

Clarence  C.  Harmstad,  176  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

Allyn  F.  Harvey,  Rockefeller  Bldg.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Frank  W.  Hastings,  Jr.,  Commercial  Trust  Co.  Bldg.,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

Logan  Hay,  514  E.  Monroe  St.,  Springfield,  111. 

Charles  R.  Hickox,  557  Madison  Ave.,  New  York  City. 

Dr.  William  McK.  Higgins,  616  Madison  Ave.,  New  York  City. 

James  N.  Hill,  555  Park  Ave.,  New  York  City. 

John  P.  Hobbie,  S.  Highland  Ave.,  Ossining,  N.  Y. 

Benjamin  Hodge,  Box  383,  Redlands,  Calif. 

Richard  T.  Holbrook,  Ph.D.,  care  D.  G.  Holbrook,  P.  O.  Drawer  51, 
Hartford,  Conn. 

John  L.  Hurlbert,  736  Washington  Ave.,  Dunkirk,  N.  Y. 

S.  Cady  Hutchins,  Arborway  Court,  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 

Harry   B.  Jepson,  Yale  University,   New  Haven,   Conn. 

Jesse  B.  Johnson,  Ph.D.,  1724  S.  7th  St.,  Waco,  Texas. 

Charles  D.  Jones,  Fosdick  Bldg.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Riverda  H.  Jordan,  74  Bedford  St.,  S.  E.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Dr.  Homer  T.  Joy,  Box  132,  Redlands,  Calif. 

Walter  P.  Judson,  185  Church  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Dr.  Adrian  V.  S.  Lambert,  168  E.  71st  St.,  New  York  City. 

Edwin  R.  Lamson,  120  Summit  Ave.,  Summit,  N.  J. 

Dr.  William  J.  Lamson,  120  Summit  Ave.,  Summit,  N.  J. 

Irwin  B.  Laughlin,  care  State  Department,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Arthur  P.  Lord,  Ph.D.,  62  Cedar  St.,  New  York  City. 

Dr.   Irving   P.  Lyon,  531    Franklin   St.,   Buffalo,   N.   Y. 

Stuart  McKnight,  1518  3d  Ave.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

William  Maffitt,  Mercantile  Trust  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Arthur  J.  Martin,   154  Jewett  Ave.,  Jersey  City,   N.  J. 

Walter  R.  Marvin,  701  Madison  Ave.,  New  York  City. 

Rev.  Edward  T.  Mathison,  9  Ellington  Ave.,  Rockville,  Conn. 

Alfred  K.  Merritt,  145  Canner  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Charles  W.  Mills,  1210  Land  Title  Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

George  E.  Mills,  714  Mercantile  Library  Bldg.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 


482  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN  NINETY  THREE 


Franklin  A.  Moore,  55  Edmund  Place,  Detroit,  Mich. 

J.  Stanley  Moore,  915  James  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

John  H.  Morgan,  20  Exchange  Place,  New  York  City. 

Albert  H.  Morse,  6  Elm  St.,  Fairport,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Alfred  G.  Nadler,  377  Orange  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Emerson  R.  Newell,  2  Rector  St.,  New  York  City. 

William  L.  Newton,  275  Henry  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

William  A.  Osborn,  191 1  E.  75th  St.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

William  W.  W.  Parker,  Berger  Bldg.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Francis  Parsons,  27  Forest  St.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

George  L.  Peck,   129  Church  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Alton   W.    Peirce,    Ph.D.,    Worcester   County   Training    School,    Oakdale, 

Mass. 
Charles  M.  Pope,  327  W.  56th  St.,  New  York  City. 
Albert  H.  Putney,  care  State  Department,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Harry  C.  Quintard,  70  Grove  St.,  Stamford,  Conn. 
Gerald  L.  Rathbone,  Burlingame,  Calif. 
George  H.  Rice,  Scranton,  Pa. 

John  T.  Robinson,  11  Central  Row,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Dr.  Joseph  Roby,  234  Culver  Road,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Derby  Rogers,  New  Canaan,  Conn. 

Louis  Barcroft  Runk,  Watervliet  Arsenal,  Watervliet,  N.  Y. 
Herbert  I.  Sackett,  256  Pearl  St.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
William  C.  Scott,  403  Grand  St.,  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 
Samuel  Scoville,  Jr.,  Pennsylvania  Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Hubert  M.  Sedgwick,  683  Prospect  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Albert  J.  Shaw,  18  E.  41st  St.,  New  York  City. 
George  T.  Slade,  Northern  Pacific  Railway  Co.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 
William  W.  Smith,  915  White  Bldg.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Rev.  George  B.  Spalding,  Cocoanut  Grove,  Miami,  Fla. 
Samuel  R.  Spencer,  Suffield,  Conn. 
Robbins  B.  Stoeckel,  Norfolk,  Conn. 
Wendell  M.  Strong,  Ph.D.,  care  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Co.  of  New  York, 

32  Nassau  St.,  New  York  City. 
Dr.  Carlyle  E.  Sutphen,  31  Roseville  Ave.,  Newark,  N.  J. 
Noah  H.  Swayne,  2d,  814  Pennsylvania  Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Moses  Taylor,  5  Nassau  St.,  New  York  City. 
Dr.  William  S.  Terriberry,  Fisher's  Island,  N.  Y. 
John  B.  Thomas,  Memorial  Bldg.,  Rockville,  Conn. 
Herbert  G.  Thomson,  165  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
Dexter  E.  Tilley,  no  address. 
Horace  G.  Torbert,  R.  F.  D.  5,  Concord,  N.  H. 
Edward  H.  Tracy,  410  American  Trust  Bldg.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
Thomas  C.  Trask,  1081   Park  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Charles  G.  Trumbull,   1031  Walnut  St.,  Philadelphia,   Pa. 
Harry  S.  Vaile,  603  N.  6th  Ave.,  Maywood,  111. 
Isidore  Wachsman,  19  S.  Pine  Ave.,  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Robert  B.  Wade,  1261  Madison  Ave.,  New  York  City. 
A.  Hamilton  Wallis,  Colchester,  Conn. 
John  D.  Warnock,  Ph.D.,  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa. 


ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS  483 

Lemuel  A.  Welles,  120  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

Ernest  H.  Wells,  150  Nassau  St.,  New  York  City. 

Carl  Westerfeld,  425  Call  Bldg.,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Arthur  L.  Wheeler,  Ph.D.,  221  Roberts  Road,  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Webster  Wheelock,  581  Grand  Ave.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Albert  B.  White,  Ph.D.,  University  of  Minnesota,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Walter  D.  Wilcox,  1526  New  Hampshire  Ave.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Edward  M.  Williams,  10916  Magnolia  Drive,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Alfred  C.  Woolner,  15  Water  St.,  New  York  City. 

Wilbur  S.  Wright,  96  Greenwich  Ave.,  Greenwich,  Conn. 

Frederick  W.  Yates,  32  Nassau  St.,  New  York  City. 


NON-GRADUATES 

Louis  H.  Burrell,  Knowlton  Bank  Bldg.,  Freeport,  111. 

Jacob  H.  Carfrey,  Reading,  Mass. 

Alphonse  G.  deRiesthal,  360  Fulton  St.,  Jamaica,  N.  Y. 

J.  Edward  Drake,  72  Front  St.,  Bath,  Me. 

James  S.  Dwight,  care  Rhode  Island  Automobile  Club,  Providence,  R.  I. 

John  L.  Emerson,  Titusville,  Pa. 

Harrison  W.  Flint,  City  Mission,  Washington  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Robert  R.  Hall,  1376  Broadway,  Denver,  Colo. 

Miles  T.  Hand,  M.E.,  541  6th  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  William  W.  Hopkins,  124  Main  St.,  Geneva,  N.  Y. 

Lewis  F.  Johnson,  no  address. 

Henry  H.  Lewis,  315  W.  Main  St.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Terry  Parker,  7  Wall  St.,  New  York  City. 

Lucian  Sharpe,  130  Angell  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Frederic  B.  Taintor,  Globe  Square,  New  York  City. 

Charles  H.  Thrall,  296  N.  Oxford  St.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Rev.  Corydon  C.  Tyler,  Chestnut  Hill,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Pere  G.  Wallmo,  Stony  Creek,  Conn. 

Frank  C.  Wilder,  no  address. 


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UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS-URBANA 
C.Y12U1893     C001 
Twenty-five  year  record   class  of  ninet 


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